About Jon Taylor
I have been fascinated by wildlife and the natural world since I was a young child, and a conservationist since I worked out what the word ‘endangered’ means. I spent many years working on long-term projects in Africa and Asia Later, I monitored and evaluated conservation projects across the European Union. In more recent years I’ve worked on climate change at WWF, tigers and elephants at the Zoological Society of London, coral reefs and cetaceans in various places, and most recently before joining Conservation Optimism in 2024 I was Managing Director at Save the Rhino International. I have over 30 years of experience in conservation and sustainable development, which is a nice way of saying I'm getting old. But I still wonder at our beautiful world every day, and I love helping to support and guide the next generation of brilliant conservationists.
