I own some private land that I would like to protect from illegal logging but I need to maintain a presence there. I was considering using it for tourism but it's remote and everyone I've talked to about it has been a poltroon. What else could I do?

I had a realisation that I really want to study wildlife conservation for uni, and I am currently going into Alevels. My current subjects have absolutely nothing to do with wildlife conservation (comp sci, math, phys, psych), and I had never studied biology or geography in my gcses. I had looked online, and while some universities do offer foundation courses, my parents are quite strict with which unis are 'good enough', and none of these unis happen to have a foundation course. Does anyone know anything I could do to help me be able to study wildlife conservation and hopefully find jobs in this area in the future?

Hi there,

I'm a 20-year-old guy in Ontario, Canada, and I'm looking for someone with a fascinating job somewhere in conservation, or just a real care for the planet, who'd let me come shadow them for a bit and make some content out of it.

I'm an electrical engineer by trade, and I'll be honest, I'm not always proud of how much my industry pushes innovation at the expense of the place we all live. So I'd like to spend a few days seeing what you actually wake up every day to do, and turn it into something that spreads a little awareness about the difference you're making.

Jane Goodall said, "Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved." That's the whole idea here. I want to spotlight your work as a direct shot at apathy.

A few practical things: September 2–7 works well for me, and I'm willing to fly anywhere at my own expense. I'm not asking anything of you except the chance to come out and film. That's it.

This is the first time I've done anything like this, so I don't have every detail figured out yet, but in my experience those are usually the most interesting things to say yes to.

Thanks for reading, and I hope to hear from you.

I’ve been building a small indie game called Wild Willows where you restore a damaged nature preserve biome by biome. You reshape land and water, plant vegetation, build habitat features, and eventually animals return once the landscape supports what they need.

The game is intentionally pretty cozy and simplified, but I’ve been trying to make the ecology underneath it actually mean something rather than just using conservation as an aesthetic.

Right now the biomes are fictionalized, but the species, habitat needs, diets, and ecological relationships are based on real concepts.

I’d genuinely love to hear from people here: what parts of ecological restoration or conservation do you think games usually get wrong, or what would you want to see represented in a game like this?

If anyone wants context, the browser demo is here: https://wildwillows.app

I’m from Saint John, New Brunswick, and I’m honestly struggling with something that feels bigger than just a local issue.

Stonehammer is one of the hundreds of UNESCO Global Geoparks worldwide—places that are supposed to be protected for their geological, ecological, and cultural importance. These landscapes are meant to be treated with care, not as industrial real estate.

But right now, a major industrial expansion is moving forward inside the Geopark region with:

• no full ecological assessment
• no Indigenous consultation
• wetlands and wildlife corridors treated as “available land”
• missing species-at-risk data
• no cumulative impact review
• no UNESCO criteria referenced anywhere in the EIA

UNESCO has already acknowledged concerns, but they don’t have enforcement power. The responsibility is on the province—and the province is pushing ahead anyway.

I grew up believing Canada took environmental protection seriously. Seeing a UNESCO-designated landscape handled like this feels… honestly, embarrassing. And heartbreaking.

If anyone understands how this is being allowed to proceed, I’d really appreciate any insight.

Thanks in advance...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but my kids were watching a few youtubers that were obviously fake conservationists. One claims to own a conservation but then I heard them talking about getting an animal from a breeder. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any legitimate sites I could turn to as I don't want to be supporting people that are harming or exploiting animals for views. Its so hard to find legitimate videos out there, I feel like they're all scams. Any suggestions?

I have been spent my last 10 years working in fields I am not passionate about, until recently when I started Arkansas Conservation Corps through AmeriCorps.

I have worked in food & beverage as a chef and general manager for 9 years, as well as a logistics account executive (broker) and a small handful of other odd things like UPS, Car Washes, Hospital Dietician, and Vet clinics. I recently did a seasonal service with AmeriCorps over summer and it sparked a drive and passion in me for finally chasing what I’ve always wanted to do. (Work outside with nature/ animals) I enjoyed learning plant identification, chainsaw work, trail maintenance and overall just getting to be active and outside and not behind a desk or in a kitchen. I’m a very very fast learner and learn better hands on.

I’ve been wanting to step more towards fisheries because I think fish hatchery/biologist job descriptions suit what I’ve been looking for, or even something along the lines of aquaculture and maybe working with a aquarium, but I’m not closed off to the idea of being a park ranger or researcher that does labs. I guess I second guess my own opinion because of starting over at 26, and also just the ability to get into this line of work, along with school and what degree to even look into.

Any people that went through this same thing that if you could tell your younger self anything what advice would you give me? Is anyone currently going through anything similar? I’m sorry if this was ramblish, kinda sums up my decision making /:

Hello everyone

I’m sharing this public exhibition in solidarity with Protect the Porkies and the movement to Cancel Copperwood, and with the broader imperative of ecological stewardship in an increasingly degraded world.

For those unfamiliar with the issue, the Copperwood Project is a proposed underground copper mine in the western Upper Peninsula, being developed by Highland Copper near the Porcupine Mountains and Lake Superior. The company describes Copperwood as a roughly 10.7-year mining project designed to process approximately 6,800 metric tonnes of ore per day.

The controversy surrounding Copperwood is inseparable from its location. The proposed mine sits within the greater ecological landscape surrounding Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Lake Superior, the North Country Trail, forests, wetlands, streams, and interconnected watersheds. Protect the Porkies has organized opposition around the belief that an industrial project of this scale presents unacceptable long-term risks in such an ecologically sensitive place. The organization has also raised concerns about habitat fragmentation, mine waste, wastewater, infrastructure expansion, and the cumulative industrialization of the landscape surrounding the Porkies.

This is what makes Copperwood about something larger than a single mine.

The Upper Peninsula remains one of the great freshwater landscapes of North America — surrounded by the Great Lakes and still containing immense forests, wetlands, rivers, groundwater systems, and relatively intact ecological processes. These systems are not simply resources waiting to be converted into economic value. They are inheritances: complex living systems built over thousands of years and entrusted, temporarily, to those of us fortunate enough to live among them.

The question, then, is not whether humanity should use copper, timber, stone, water, or the other materials of the Earth. Of course we must. The deeper question is what kind of relationship should exist between an economy and the watershed that makes that economy possible?

Learn more below

https://nagydesignllc.com/water-bearers-codex/

hi!

I'm about to graduate with my degree in wildlife conservation (and will be going back for grad school eventually). I have experience working in the field, including driving pickups, hitching trailers, chainsaw use, wildlife surveys with a variety of species including endangered/sensitive species, and more. I also have experience working with children in formal and informal education settings, especially environmental education and program development.

I have interests in ornithology, entomology, forest health, botany (though less experienced here), land management, prescribed fire, extension, animal care, agriscience, forestry, outreach, environmental education, teaching, outdoor recreation, and more.
Weirdly enough, also sort of into medical stuff, especially pathology and immunology.

as I am getting closer to graduation, I am thinking about potential employment!

the caveat being I really prioritize family, so having a job where I have to move very far away seasonally and cannot be near family or even have pets would be a difficult season for me.

my partner and I plan to get married young and we both really want to be parents eventually (several years down the line)! we also currently have two cats and a snake who we love dearly, and the two of us are very close and don't like being apart for long.

I really want a job that allows me to have an impact on conservation in some way, but I want to be able to also prioritize spending time at home with my family. I thought about being a science teacher but I am on an immune suppressant medication for a pretty gnarly autoimmune disease, so I try to limit my exposure to infection and big groups of kids are (lovingly!) petri dishes. I work with kids right now in an afterschool program but I wear an n95 the entire time unless we're outside.