Presidential Address: John Parkes
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John Parkes was born in Marton, went to school in New Plymouth, and completed his BSc and MSc degrees at Massey University. He joined the Forest Research Institute at Ilam as a scientist in 1975 and transferred to Landcare Research when the Crown Research Institutes were formed in 1992. John has worked on the ecology of many mammals (hedgehogs, possums, swamp wallabies, hares, red deer, wapiti, feral goats, Himalayan thar, and chamois). John's present research is aimed at understanding the nature of impacts of controlled populations of feral goats and possums in forest ecosystems to determine control intensities and frequencies needed to protect forest values. However, understanding the biology of pestresource systems has not, by itself, led to sustainable protection of resources, and since 1987, John has been involved with developing national pest control plans in New Zealand for the Department of Conservation and in Australia for the Bureau of Resource Sciences. The aim of these national plans has been to identify and integrate the "best practice" legal, policy, strategic, tactical, and economic elements of pest management, and to ensure they are put into practice to maximise the benefits to the resources of value. John has published 30 papers and produced numerous reports for pest management agencies. He joined the Ecological Society in 1975 and has served on Council and as Secretary, Vice-President, and President.
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