Associate Professor Craig Morley

Waiariki Institute of Technology

Craig Morley is an Associate Professor at the Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand. He has worked for the University South Pacific, Fiji, as a conservation biologist and in New Zealand’s Department of Conservation as a Biodiversity programme manager. With his students in Fiji, he won the BP Gold conservation award for his work on protecting Fiji’s endangered ground frog. He has been the Past President of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Oceania Section and was on the Board of Governors at SCB. He is a member of the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group and in World Commission for Protected Areas. Most of his research has been on the impact of invasive species, particularly on islands and in agricultural systems. Presently, his time is spent researching and advocating for sustainable land-use practices to improve and protect water quality around some of New Zealand’s most iconic sites. He firmly believes in conservation-based evidence to promote and enhance good community practice. He trained at the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand.