Dame Susan Glazebrook and Mr Mark Sutton, of Te Anau, MNZM for services to conservation
Mark Sutton is a contracted Field Officer for the Waiau Fisheries and Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Trust and a Regional Representative for the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust (QEII). He is a New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust Board member. His approach focuses on habitat creation and enhancement, to improve wildlife outcomes, and land management, to improve water quality. His projects have included Waimatuku, Rakatu, and the Waiau mouth whitebait ponds. He has utilised Direct Seeding technology to plant native forests at scale. Mr Sutton’s work has helped connect protected land parcels in an emerging ‘Mountains to the Sea’ continuum of protected waterways under the QEII and Waiau Trusts.