The BioR team
BioR members are diverse and include university students, professors, public servants, teachers, dentists, doctors, nurses, engineers, developers, and retirees all willing to offset their ecological footprints.
Three directors manage BioR. David Paton AM is a restoration ecologist at the University of Adelaide with a passion for woodland and wetland birds. Dave Taylor is completing a Ph.D. at the Australian National University on fire and management of threatened plant species on Kangaroo Island. Jack May, a graduate of Stanford University, is committed to sustainable development and repairing natural systems.
David Paton AM is an ecologist at the University of Adelaide with a passion for conservation and restoration and a strong commitment to long-term studies that help understand and manage the natural environment for future generations. He completed a B.Sc. (Hons) at the University of Adelaide and a Ph.D. at Monash University. His work on the Coorong and declining woodland birds is well known. He frequently provides informed comment on wildlife and environmental issues to politicians, the general public and the media. He was the recipient of the SA Great Award for the Environment (1999), the Premier’s Science Excellence Award for Excellence in Research for Public Good Outcomes (2006), received a National Carrick Citation for environmental education (2006) and was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to conservation, education and the environment (2008). In addition to being on the Board of Directors for BioR Oz he was also one the founders and on the Board of Directors for Arid Recovery, another non-profit organisation that aims to restore arid ecosystems in Australia.
Dave Taylor (B. Nat Res. Hons) has worked on wildlife management projects in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Antarctica and South Australia. In 2002 he moved to Kangaroo Island and began working for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to recover some of Kangaroo Island’s rarest plant life. He has specialised skills in threatened species conservation, fire regime restoration and habitat re-instatement and holds a passion for undertaking management actions on a scale that makes a real difference. He currently manages Cygnet Park Sanctuary, the largest habitat re-instatement project on Kangaroo Island and one of the most significant in South Australia.
Jack May works with start-ups in the “Clean-tech” and Environmental sectors where he helps with planning and financing. Prior to this he worked in real estate investments for 30 years in the western US and northern Europe. He is also a director of BioR, an Australian non-profit, which develops strategies for restoring land that has been degraded by “over-farming”. Jack holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University. Jack and his wife, Hilary, cook country Italian meals as often as they can in a wood burning stove when they are not biking and taking care of horses and dogs on their farm in Sonoma County, California.