Why Pursue Conservation as your International Education
Posted date: 18 Jan 2021
Have you dreamed of learning conservation abroad? You can save invasive species by thinking about all the sea turtles you can help eradicate, and you can track rare birds? Just fine! It sounds like you already have one foot outside your house. But then you’re thinking bubble comes crashing into the realities of logistics and you wonder if it's all worth the trouble. To be honest, Conservation research abroad, both from a personal and professional point of view, is one of the best experiences you can have!
Conservation studies abroad are a rare, useful and satisfying experience to have as a high school or undergraduate student, but particularly if nature or any of its wonderful aspects are involved in your major or future career. You should expect to spend a lot of time outdoors interacting with plants or animals in the hot sun, choppy seas, green forests, or any myriad of environmental backdrops during conservation study abroad programmes.
As the climate crisis gains notoriety and as we watch ecosystems disappear before our eyes around the world, conservation is a rising market. The fact that so much work needs to be done means that there are hundreds upon dozens of projects to choose from around the globe for environmental studies abroad.
In the job market, bringing your conservation studies abroad makes you so much more successful. It will add important hard skills to your arsenal, and under your belt you will have realistic knowledge that many of your peers will just not match. Come graduation, you will be thankful for spending a semester washing dirt out from under your fingernails and having a close look at what's going on behind the wildlife restoration scenes. It will help to make you a pioneer in potential career opportunities and open many doors to all sorts of cool possibilities!
Wildlife protection will be the gift that keeps on giving in terms of your career and future projects after studying abroad. You will make several connections with your friends, instructors, and guides during your programme, and they could just be integral to providing you with a critical letter of recommendation or a reference. Not to mention, you'll be able to interact and see how they've been able to draw on their own experience with other programme alumni!
Hopefully, you now feel like you have the ammo you need to make a well-informed decision, and hopefully the decision is to do conservation research abroad! With so many corners of the globe to discover, so many habitats that need our assistance, and a whole bunch of personal and professional benefits, overseas conservation research seems like a no-brainer, right? Get out there now and find your dream career!
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