Guy Salmon

{{Short description|New Zealand environmentalist (born 1949)}}

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Guy Winston Salmon {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=85%}} (born 1949) is a New Zealand environmentalist.

Salmon was born in 1949. His father was John Salmon, who was a noted entomologist and professor of zoology at Victoria University of Wellington.{{cite web |title=Salmon, Guy, 1949– |url= https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.213166 |publisher=Alexander Turnbull Library |access-date=3 December 2020}} His mother was Pamela Naomi Salmon (née Wilton).{{cite book |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Alister |editor-link=Alister Taylor |title=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 1992 |year=1992 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |page=253}}

Salmon is executive director of the Ecologic Foundation,{{cite web |url= http://www.ecologic.org.nz/?id=41&page=Board+of+Directors#BOD_Gerald |title=Ecologic Our Staff |work=Ecologic Foundation |year=2012 |accessdate=25 March 2012}} an independent policy think tank. He has been involved with this organisation in its various forms since the 1970s. In the early 1970s, Salmon was a prominent member of the environmentalist Values Party.{{cite news|title=Values: The Political Wing of the Arrowmint Crowd |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Salient36111973-t1-body-d21.html |work=Salient |date=30 May 1973 |volume=36 |issue=11 |pages=10–11 }}

In 1990 and 1991, Salmon was a member of Simon Upton's review group that finalised the definition of sustainable management included in the Resource Management Act 1991.[http://www.rmla.org.nz/_downloads/speech_aug2001.pdf The Beginnings of the Resource Management Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228234842/http://www.rmla.org.nz/_downloads/speech_aug2001.pdf |date=28 February 2008 }}, Hon Justice A P Randerson, 'Beyond the RMA', an address given to the Resource Management Law Association (Auckland Branch) at a seminar held on 28 August 2001 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Enactment of the RMA.

Salmon stood as a candidate for Parliament on behalf of the Progressive Greens in 1996 and the New Zealand National Party in the 2002 election.

In 1990, Salmon was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |authorlink1=Alister Taylor |authorlink2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=325}} In the 2021 New Year Honours, Salmon was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2021 |title=New Year honours list 2021 |date=31 December 2020 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=31 December 2020}}