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			<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Stephen King (conservationist)</h1>
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				<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div role="note" class="hatnote">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Stephen King (disambiguation)">Stephen King (disambiguation)</a>.</div>
<p><b>Stephen King</b> is a <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> <a href="/wiki/Conservation_movement" title="Conservation movement">conservationist</a>.</p>
<p>He is well known for his tree top protest in what is now the <a href="/wiki/Pureora_Forest_Park" title="Pureora Forest Park">Pureora Forest Park</a> in order to halt native forest logging during campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s. King also is involved in the protection of <a href="/wiki/Kauri" class="mw-redirect" title="Kauri">kauri</a> trees in the <a href="/wiki/Waipoua_Forest" title="Waipoua Forest">Waipoua Forest</a>.</p>
<p>King is one of the patrons of the New Zealand Trust for Conservation Volunteers <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> and is one of the founding trustees of the <a href="/wiki/Waipoua_Forest_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Waipoua Forest Trust">Waipoua Forest Trust</a>.</p>
<p>Stephen King was sentenced to four months community detention in 2010 for possession of objectionable images, including child pornography.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.conservationvolunteers.org.nz/cms/static/about/">New Zealand Trust for Conservation Volunteers</a></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news">Lambly, Annette (31 January 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&amp;objectid=10991386">"Prominent greenie admits child porn"</a>. <i>The Northern Advocate</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStephen+King+%28conservationist%29&amp;rft.atitle=Prominent+greenie+admits+child+porn&amp;rft.aufirst=Annette&amp;rft.aulast=Lambly&amp;rft.date=2010-01-31&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnorthern-advocate%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1503450%26objectid%3D10991386&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Northern+Advocate&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;">&#160;</span></span></span></li>
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