Conservation Careers

Mariam Weston is a small cat champion and conservationist from Mexico, who believes that protecting wildlife requires more than science and fieldwork-based skills. Successful conservation also depends on good leadership, project management, and emotional intelligence.  

At a young age, she began to show an interest in the wildlife ar...

When most people picture a conservation career, they imagine wildlife veterinarians, marine biologists, anti-poaching units, or scientists deep in the field. Rarely do they picture economists. And yet, according to Matthew Guest, some of conservation’s biggest successes, or failures, are often shaped not only by ecology, but by economics, incentives, human behavio...

How entrepreneurs, innovation, and restoration businesses can help save coral reefs and build a new restoration economy, with our guest Sam Teicher.

Coral reefs cover less than one percent of our oceans, yet they support around a quarter of all marine life and provide food, livelihoods, and coastal protection for around a billion people. Yet ...

How marine scientists can combine conservation, entrepreneurship, storytelling, and tourism to create impact, with our guest Justin Blake.

Justin Blake is a marine scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of RockHopper – a social enterprise that blends marine science, storytelling, tourism, and conservation to crea...

We call it Planet Earth.

But perhaps we should have called it Planet Water.

After all, around 71% of our planet’s surface is covered by water, and the oceans contain around 97% of all water on Earth. They regulate our climate, produce around half of the oxygen we breathe, absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, provi...