The Conservation Programmes Department at the Zoological Society of London is offering an excellent opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s leading conservation research organisations. The intern will collaborate with the ZSL’s Marine and Freshwater Programme Manager, a Post-Doctoral fellow in the Institute of Zoology, and other project partners to the develop an ‘eel threat index’ by examining historical changes in key parameters such as habitat availability, fishing pressure, presence and prevalence of a parasite and levels of pollutants such as PCBs, using available data.