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Bronwyn has a Diploma in Business Management, is a qualified Prince 2 Practitioner and has over 12 years of project management experience with research programmes within the forestry industry. Bronwyn’s previously managed the High Performance Manuka Primary Growth Partnership Programme which had 400 ha of trial manuka plantations throughout New Zealand. Bronwyn has held several roles at Scion, New Zealand Forest Research Institute where her interest in trees was born. 

Bronwyn lives with her husband in Rotorua, is a keen angler with a key interest in walking our beaches and forests. She has a passion to be a part of the solutions to better environmental practices for land and water in this country.

Maggie Olsen is a terrestrial ecologist who works in native tree forestry and land use change, specializing in manuka establishment for honey production.  Throughout her education and career she has been involved in conservation and habitat restoration as well as honey plantation development and native forest establishment.  Her work is motivated by the goal of a leafy green future for increasing sustainable land use in which the management of forests supports clean water and environmental quality for everyone.   

Qualifications

• MSc Terrestrial Ecology
  (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

• BSc Environmental Science and
  Conservation Biology
  (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)

Capabilities

• Independent manuka consultancy and advice

• Manuka plantation site evaluation

• Manuka cultivar recommendation and honey plantation design

• Plantation monitoring, survival assessments, QC services and reporting

• Honey bee support species recommendation and selection

• Native tree species selection advice

• Ecological restoration

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