The Team

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Director 

David Brook is the founder of Wildlife Projects and Wildbnb Wildlife Habitat, organisations dedicated to supporting wildlife through ecological products, services, and infrastructure for both private and public landholders. Their work enhances biodiversity across natural, agricultural, and urban environments.

Since 2015, David has built a commercial framework for delivering recovery programs for threatened species and restoring habitat across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland. 

Owls-eat-Rats and the Beneficial Wildlife Program grew from this mission, inspired by the growing challenge of wildlife displacement from natural areas into farmland and cities. By demonstrating the ecological and practical benefits of native species, these programs help landholders integrate wildlife-friendly practices into everyday land management.

For more than two decades, David has also led a major ecological restoration project on his property, Araluen, in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Situated at the headwaters of the Brunswick River and adjoining Mt Jerusalem National Park, Araluen is a protected refuge renowned for its high biodiversity values and as habitat for a critically endangered ecological community and numerous threatened species.

Project Director

Alastair Duncan leads the design and development of Owls Eat Rats, focusing on how ecological rodent control can scale across whole landscapes rather than single farms. He works with growers, partners and researchers to build the systems behind the project — from habitat strategy and regional rollout planning to the development of the impact tools needed to measure real outcomes. With a background in sustainable development and community-based project design, Alastair’s work centres on connecting individual landholders into a broader, coordinated approach to beneficial species and long-term ecological management.

Habitat Specialist

Eli Davies brings extensive expertise in designing and creating habitats tailored to the needs of Australia’s unique wildlife. Across Wildbnb’s projects, Eli leads the creation, installation and monitoring of habitat.

Eli has worked intensely on the Owls-eat-Rats project to ensuring that the owls have safe nesting hollows and secure perching sites for hunting. Eli is also pioneering new habitat solutions for microbats and solitary native bees. 

Eli is the team's 'tech wrangler', managing the technology behind Wildbnb’s vast network of cameras, drones, acoustic and ultrasonic monitoring systems used to track and study wildlife.