The British Trust for Ornithology is seeking applications from a research ecologist for an exciting new 5-year landscape restoration program in Belarus and Ukraine - ’Wilderness without borders: Creating one of the largest natural landscapes in Europe’. The project will designate new, and upgrade existing conservation areas to create a transboundary protected and interconnected core area of 1.2 million ha, within wider Prypiat/Polesia area covering approximately 5.8 million ha around the border between Belarus and Ukraine. The project also aims to directly avert threats, such as wetland drainage, habitat change and fragmentation caused by infrastructure development, forestry and intensive, unsustainable resource extraction. In addition, improved management and better trans-bounda