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Give your conservation career a huge boost with a special four day course designed to increase your chances of employment within the …
The human population is growing at an alarming rate – in April this year there was an estimated 7.5 billion people living …
Filling a gap Positive Change for Marine Life is a marine conservation organization based in Byron Bay and Brisbane, Australia. Their slogan …
Dr Joe Chipperfield is a postdoctoral Research Ecologist working in the Biogeography department at the University of Trier in Germany. The main focus of …
Interviewing early career environmentalists there’s a common challenge in moving from being a student to a paid career. Gaining experience alongside your …
Julie Melrose is Assistant Director for the Conservation Council Australian Capital Territory. She is a passionate advocate for progressive social and environmental …
We spend nearly half our waking lives at work and most of us aren’t that happy about it. We all know CVs …
Already doing your dream job? If so, don’t bother reading on – there’s nothing to see here. However, if you’re still on …
It is no coincidence that conservation and conversation are anagrams. In our age of insta-information and digital decisions, it’s easy to mistake …
Nick Askew is the Fundraising and Communications Manager for BirdLife Pacific – a flourishing network of seven national conservation organisations based in Fiji, …
For the past seven years, Laurence Najem has been recruiting talent from all over the globe for WWF International. Today she answers …
Conservation Careers has teamed up with Bushwise to provide professional Field Guide Training in South Africa. With over 10 years’ experience in …
Geographic Information Systems is a discipline which goes right to the heart of conservation and helps us to answer fundamental questions right …
In a world where more and more humans live in cities, and far from truly natural areas, is it any wonder that wildlife conservation nears the bottom of …
Stella Diamant initially wanted to be a vet until she realised that killing lab mice and being indoors weren’t for her. A …