• Question: have you done much field work with rare or endangered animals?

    Asked by stefem1 to Freya on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Freya Harrison

      Freya Harrison answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      I’ve had very little experience of field work and I would love to do more. I’m thinking of taking a gap year between jobs in the near future so I can go and be a field assistant to one of my friends who works on exciting animals in exotic places… fingers crossed!

      It would be great to do more fieldwork/conservation in the UK too. I once helped out a researcher who was trying to re-introduce water voles to the Thames – they went extinct in most of western Europe when American mink were introduced. That was fantastic, and the project has been very successful.

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  • Photo: stefem1

    stefem1 commented on :

    i’m taking a gap year before uni, im going to study zoology and in my gap year im working with animals all over the world. i’ll be working on a placement at chester zoo in the giraffe house, ill be traveling to south africa to work with lions and elephants, and hopefully i’ll be working for a month in new zealand, i feel really passionate about consering the species’ that are only endangered due to human actions/nterferance.

    • Photo: Freya

      Freya commented on :

      It sounds like you’re going to have a great time – I hope you really enjoy both your gap year and your zoology degree! Chester Zoo should be interesting – I think I’m right in saying that they’re seen as being one of the foremost zoos in the UK for conservation and welfare?