Glen Taylor OAM
26 September 1930 – 19 July 2022
Aged 91 years
It is with a great deal of sadness that we pay our final farewells to Glen Taylor OAM. Glen was a conservation volunteer in the Natural History Society of SA for an extraordinary 52 years. He was our Head Ranger, working out rosters and work tasks, and our Editor for our newsletter, NATURAL HISTORY, for 28 years.
As well as being on our Management Committee since 1970, he was instrumental in our many maintenance projects including fencing, weeding and feral animal control. He built water points, installed rainwater tanks, erected roofing and constructed amenities.
He set up study areas to monitor wombat populations, and designed and manufactured a wombat activity recorder that monitored every time a wombat entered or exited its burrow. He published the longest running study of its kind into wombat populations. His work began in 1970 and continued well into 2022.
He mapped the locations of warrens over the entire Moorunde reserve system, counted numbers of burrows and recorded activity. He completed this survey in late 2021, mapping over 3,000 wombat warrens with an estimated population of over 3,000 wombats for the reserve. In the last few months he privately published his ‘Atlas’ of wombat warrens on Moorunde.
He was awarded the Premiers Certificate of Appreciation in 2001, and again in 2022, and the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2007 for his contribution to conservation and the environment.
His work ethic, enthusiasm, and kind nature will be sorely missed by all that knew him.
Photos illustrating the amazing, long-term contribution of Glen Taylor to Wombats SA
