Peter Howard McKenzie (10 September 1952 – 15 April 2012) was a New Zealand conservationist and founder of the Ngā Manu Nature Reserve in Waikanae, New Zealand.
[1][2] He was educated at Nelson College from 1966 to 1969,[3] where his interest in native plants was encouraged through spending time at the school's outdoor education centre, Mataki Lodge, near Murchison.
[1] In 1974 McKenzie formed Ngā Manu Trust and in 1978 the trust first leased and later bought the current site of Ngā Manu Nature Reserve in Waikanae.
[4] In 2009, after three years of work, McKenzie captured footage of a puriri moth hatching from its chrysalis.
[5] McKenzie was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010 and he died in 2012.