environment
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The Issue Explained: Wildfire – A Growing Challenge for Conservation?
Siobhan Brocklehurst Wildfires are traditionally associated with the Mediterranean, Australia or California rather than the British countryside. However, after another exceptionally dry summer and numerous UK fires, wildfire is becoming an issue conservationists increasingly need to consider. Wildfires are not new to Britain, but the conditions that allow them to start and spread are changing.…
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Three Months in Conservation: A Career Change, Field Work, and What I’ve Learned So Far!
In September I started a full-time job as a Conservation Assistant – a career change I’d been working towards for some time. Now that I’ve reached the three-month mark, it feels like a good moment to share what the work is actually like, and how the skills I’m learning feed into the kind of practical…
