Johno Ridden

Johno Ridden is the Associate Curator Natural History at Canterbury Museum. He also serves on the New Zealand Entomology Society executive committee as the Membership Officer. He has a Bachelor of Science (Hon) with a major in Conservation and Ecology. He has a keen interest in Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural history, profiling and highlighting our unique flora and fauna. The group he is most interested in are the invertebrates. Johno is keen to contribute his knowledge and experience to conserve and promote the Styx River vision of being Living Laboratory. In his spare time, he will most likely be walking somewhere around Ōtautahi or the Waitaha Canterbury foothills with his wife and dog Namu the Springer Spaniel.