Mr Joe Davis, of Whitianga, MNZM, for services to Māori and conservation
Joe Davis is a member of the Hauraki Māori Trust Board for Ngāti Hei, a key treaty negotiator for Ngāti Hei and Ngāpuhi, and is the kaitiaki of Ngāti Hei’s rohe.
He works closely with the Department of Conservation and is a member of the Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove) Committee and Hahei Coast Committee.
He is a member of the Waikato Regional Council’s Coromandel Catchment Committee. He was an inaugural member of the Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Stakeholder Working Group, working to produce the first Hauraki Gulf/Tikapa Moana Marine Spatial Plan.
Mr Davis developed and organised the pōwhiri at Wharekaho for the Tuia 250 national commemoration event.