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= Pursuing a Career in Conservation =

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This page provides links, resources and opportunities relevant for pursing a career in Conservation Biology. The Society for Conservation Biology and its Student Affairs Committee produce resources to aid students, graduates and young professional in pursuing careers in conservation. Three main resources that warrant highlighting are:
 * Introduction and Highlights**

1) Hunter, Lindenmayer and Calhoun's 2007 book - [|Save the Earth as a Career: Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional] - available in print and as an E-Book 2) The Society for Conservation Biology's [|JOB DATABASE] 3) The Society for Conservation Biology's European Section's [|JOBS MAILING LIST]- which is frequently updated

=On-line Portals to Jobs in Conservation, Ecology and Environment=

[|Environment Job] [|Environment Post] [|StopDodo] [|EarthWorks] [|Conservation Jobs] [|Environmental Data Services - Job Search] [|Countryside Jobs Services] [|Change Agents]
 * Environmental & Conservation Job Sites**

[|Flora and Fauna International - FFI] [|World Wide Fund for Nature UK - WWF UK] [|Wildlife Conservation Society] [|Royal Society for the Protection of Birds] [|British Trust of Conservation Volunteers - BTCV] [|National Trust - UK] [|The Wildlife Trusts - UK] [|British Trust for Ornithology] [|Bird Life International]
 * Environmental & Conservation NGO & Organisations Job pages**

[|Environment Agency - UK] [|Natural England] [|Joint Nature Conservation Committee - JNCC - UK] [|Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]
 * Environmental & Conservation UK Statutory Bodies - Job pages**

[|Find a PhD] [|Find a Masters] [|Postgraduate Studentships - all Types of Funding, all for Postgraduates] [|Masters Compare - The Masters Comparison Directory] [|International Scholarship & Financial Aid Positions] [|PhD Scholarship Positions in the UK] (diverse job openings, career tip s) [|Prospects.ac.uk] - Search for Job vacancies on Prospects by visiting their [|Graduate Job Search]
 * Postgraduate**

[|Target Jobs] [|Milk Round] [|GradPlus] [|The Graduate] [|GradJobs] [|GTS - Graduate Training Schemes]
 * Graduate Jobs**

[|Jobs.ac.uk] [|Field Studies Council]
 * Academia**

[|Fairtrade]
 * Ethical Jobs**

Volunteering and Training


 * Training opportunity with Brown Bear in the Carpathian Mountains** - 2010 and 2011More info here: [[file:Training opportunity Brown Bear Poland.doc]]

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 * Volunteer field assistants - Small Mammals in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa -** 2 open positions from **January 2011** onwards

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 * Field assistant - Cooperative breeding system of the endangered El Oro parakeet in South America**.

= Current Openings =

More info: [|Job: Ecologist (4 positions) Perth Western Australia]
 * Job: Ecologist (4 positions) for Ecological Restoration** at Perth, Australia. Deadline: 2 March 2012

**Five post-docs at the University of Queensland, Australia.** Deadline: 1 March 2012 More info: [|Five International Post-doc fellows at University of Queensland]

**Job Vacancy at the RSPB - Forest Restoration Scientist.** More info here. Deadline: 2 March 2012

**Postdoc position Ecology & Evolutionary biology** at Hull University, UK. Deadline: 13th February 2012 More info:

 Deadline: 31 January 2012. More info: [|Postdoc in conservation biology and spatial ecology]
 * Postdoc position in conservation biology and spatial ecology in Mediterranean farmlands **at the Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (Solsona, Spain).

Deadline: 31 January 2012.  More info:[|PhD Fire and landscape modelling]
 * Phd candidates: Fire and landscape modelling in the Mediterranean **at the Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (Solsona, Spain).


 * Postdoc in the ecology and evolution of host-symbiont interactions** at CSIRO Canberra, Australia. Posted date: 6 December 2011 - More info: [[file:Postdoc in CSIRO Canberra.docx]]

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 * PhD Studentship:** Improving species range map methodologies for marine biodiversity. UNEP-WCMC, University of Cambridge. __Deadline__: 31st January 2012

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 * Vacancy**: Researcher on Forests in the context of Climate Change and Development.

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 * PhD position in Biodiversity and Urban Sprawl,** The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland (Posted 9/Nov/2011)

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 * Postdoc position:** Junior Researcher in Computational Systems Ecology, Trento, Italy (Posted 5/Sept/2011)


 * PhD position in Development of a Spatial Simulation Model of the Population Dynamics of Sea Bass - Ifremer (Brest, France) more info here**

= Fellowships, Scholarships and Grants =

Visit also our page "Resources" to download our scholarship databases

