Marty Taylor - Founder CEO

Papa Taiao Earthcare grew out of these words: "We don't expect them to pass anything just make sure they don't burn the school down." Shocked by his Principal's comment Marty asked if he could take the students out of school. "Nobody objected so we set up a stoat trapping line to protect an endangered bird called the Weweia." And every student in his class gained NCEA.

Marty left teaching for a role with Auckland University's Team Solutions as an Education for Sustainability facilitator. At the same time he continued his interest in ecological restoration and managed a rat control programme at Atuanui/Mt Auckland for Forest and Bird.
Marty established Papa Taiao Earthcare in 2014 after six years teaching and facilitating Education for Sustainability in to secondary schools.

While facilitating the Enviroschools programme at Northland Regional Council Marty piloted several of his ideas for ways to integrate Education for Sustainability in to the secondary school's curriculum.

Prior to teaching Marty worked at Natural History New Zealand Ltdas a writer and librarian. After NHNZ was sold to Fox Television he started freelancing as a photographer and writer at New Zealand Geographic. He wrote predominantly on Natural History and Adventure. Delving even deeper in to the past Marty engaged in social and environmental activism while at University; sailing to Moruroa to protest against nuclear weapons testing and writing on the genetics of sexuality. Between 1991-95 he trained for adventure sport, climbed mountains, and wrote for medical, science and lay publications on topics as diverse as the ethics of using foetal tissue in research and medicine, the genetics of sexuality, nuclear arms reduction, the origins of life, nutritional supplementation in performance athletes and the philosophy of risk taking in adventure sport. Marty's interest in communication and writing started while studying Performance Nutrition at Otago University and tutoring Anatomy and Physiology at Otago Polytech. He eventually completed post graduate qualifications in Physical Education and Science from Otago University and Broadcast Communication from Auckland University.