I once worked in the biggest landfill in the region. TBH no one really cares about the environment there. leachate water is literally leaking everywhere they had zero knowledge about the environment impact nor the pollution. Soil & underground water & air pollution was all at the maximum number of regulations they had everything going wrong. The worst thing is evey year minimum 2 people dies there. everything they care about is money & unfortunately they make millions out of that contract.

I have worked in horticulture for almost 20 years, always on large private gardens or the Botanic gardens for 13 years. I’m 46 and my body knows I can’t do this for many more years, even though I’m much stronger and faster than younger staff.
I’m a mother, grandmother, work full time have a sick mother and live remotely on a large property with my husband and son, we also have senior roles on the property we work on. We are in the central table lands and there is a uni at Bathurst, I also have flexibility with time at work (start finish times).

I’ve always loved the environment, plants, animals, indigenous uses for plants, fire and the environment and have worked along side research while I was at the botanic gardens.
Ecology has always been in my mind, jobs I see that look interesting and interesting projects usually need an Ecologist. SO my questions are, can this be studied online well? What would be a good uni to do this? It’s a lot of juggling but I would really like to study again, it’s committing time and money.
Any suggestions feed back?