I am a marine conservationist / biologist whose passion for the ocean has been since I was young. I have been involved in tagging and releasing  juvenile great whites and rescued stranded sea lions. Now, I am building a Young Ambassadors Program for individuals who are looking to create their own path for marine conservation. 

I studied Marine Biology in San Diego, California and Wildlife Biology & Conservation in Edinburgh, Scotland. I volunteered, interned, and worked in various capacities at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Hopkins Marine Station, and on a small whale-watching outfit prior to my MSc, and I now work as a Program Delivery Facilitator at the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity in Sacramento, California. My passions lie in informal science education, outreach, and public engagement in the sciences. 

I am a science communicator - in the early part of my career but learning quickly.  My main platform is The Curious Environmentalist but I also have a personal website and I have recently started a newsletter on Substack. I currently write and do podcasts, but I am hoping to expand into videos too. My whole ethos is about making science accessible to anyone who is curious.  I'd love to connect! 

Spanish biologist passionate about wildlife conservation and large carnivores. Career switcher. Looking forward to start a wildlife conservation internship in June in Limpopo to obtain field-work experience.  Past work experience organising and carrying out integration and awareness sport events and several years as laboratory technician.

I finished my Masters Degree at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent 10 years ago and I am currently looking for like-minded, engaged and driven conservationists for inspiration to get back into conservation. My passion are ocean-related topics.

I'm a biologist, with a great passion for population ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife technology. I am particularly keen on wildlife monitoring with trail cameras. Also, I have a special interest in managing conflicts between humans and large carnivores, as well as rewilding.

I am a zookeeper from Germany. In Germany, Zookeeping requires a 3-year job training, which I finished in 2018. The zoo I got trained in keeps (among others) polar bears, chimpanzees, mountain lions, tamarins, Humboldt-penguins, sea lions, fur seals, keas and a salt water aquarium. By working in the zoo I got more and more interested in the conservation efforts zoos are doing all over the planet. Inspired by that, I left Germany to work for one year at the Endangered Primate Rescue Center (EPRC), Vietnam. The center is run by Zoo Leipzig (Germany) and rescues lorises, langurs and gibbons from all over Vietnam from the illegal pet trade. Currently I am working for a small bird rehabilitation center in Germany. As I enjoy living and working in tropical countries like Vietnam, I am hoping to be able to work in conservation in a foreign country again soon. Being professionally trained in animal husbandry, I focus on jobs at rescue centers, conservation breeding arks or something similar.

MSc Conservation Biology graduate, looking to gain experience working for a conservation organisation. Previous volunteer roles with RSPB and PTES, with skills in QGIS and ArcGIS.

I work for a South African-based NGO. The overall goal is to conserve and protect elephants and rhinos through poverty alleviation. I started as an elephant monitor primarily focused on observing and recording behaviour, human-elephant conflict mitigation, and training/educating. From there, I have become project coordinator. However, there has recently been a change in management and a shift in focus, which means I will need to focus on areas I am not familiar with - project management being one of them.

Salamatu Jidda – Fada, PhD. is a Nigerian born Conservation Scientist and Educator resident in Bangor Gwynedd, United Kingdom. She was a Research fellow with the Centre for Evidence Based Conservation, Bangor University, UK between 2016 -2018 and currently, a Visiting Researcher in the School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, UK. Her current research involves establishing a Coalition of Conservationists in Nigeria to work as a collective in creating sustainable conservation interventions to protect Nigerian Biodiversity. She is also actively involved in Human – wildlife conflict/co-existence in Dadin Kowa, Nigeria among other things. Salamatu is appointed member Expert Assessment Group, IUCN Green list for Nigeria.

I am currently the Conservation Programmes Officer at World Land Trust (WLT), based in the UK. I started working for WLT as an assistant in 2017 and over the past few years I have taken on various responsibilities. Currently I co-ordinate and manage our restoration and ranger programmes alongside WLT supported projects in Asia and our only UK site. Prior to this I spent 7 years volunteering in a variety of different roles in organisations in the UK and abroad, whilst studying for my BTEC in Countryside Management, and BSc in Wildlife Conservation at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent. I completed a 3 month internship working as a project assistant for the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos, collecting data on the Galapagos flycatcher, before I started working at WLT. Within my current role, I engage with WLT's Partner organisations to maintain partnerships, build relationships and support their work. WLT Partners are in-country conservation organisation who manage the projects and reserves that WLT support. Key to WLT’s philosophy is to empower local organisations with financial and technical assistance but not to manage them, which is what initially drew me to working at the trust. The aquisition of land is always through project partners and WLT does not own any land, each project WLT supports is run and managed by an in-country partner organisation. I am passionate about the conservation of the natural world and am interested in a wide range of topics related to that, from human-wildlife conflict and ecosystem restoration, to encouraging interest and passion for nature.