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Letter to 8-year-old Patty

Letter to 5-year-old Jessie

Letters to young conservationists- a new blog series

Gareth (My conservation journey so far)

Renuka (A thesis + a job + a family + a cat = a tired and lonely conservationist)

Praneetha (Mental Health and Conservation – Where do we draw the line?)

Audrey (Finding myself in college to feeling lost and confused post-graduation)

Rosie (My job does not define me – how to survive as a conservationist)

Lonely Conservationists 2021 Recap

Astrid (The road to conserving conservationists)

PJ (ZooFit- Helping Conservationists Take Care of Themselves)

Madhushri (Living with a Lack of Sense of Community and a Constant Environmental Guilt)

Kate (An opportunity lost, a community gained)

Jessica (You’re not a hypocrite, you’re a human)

Andrea (Grow through what you go through)

Tamara (Allow everything to be one big adventure… and try to learn something along the way)

Nicole (Pink river dolphins and black drinking water)

Debanngini (Into the thick of it- Chasing my dream to be an interdisciplinary urban ecologist)

Kayla (From a Dream Job to Misery and Back Again)

Natalie (Winding Path to a Clear-ish Destination)

Laura (Pt. 2 “Everything is figure-out-able”)

Julia (A conservationist in COVID times)

Gillian (Saying yes works great (until it doesn’t))

Tirth (The Curious Case of ‘Career Loneliness’)

Mel (Advocating for myself)

Jarryd (Dispare on the coastlines)

Rhian (My mental health cost me my conservation career but helped me find myself)

Dolapo (Unfufilled and nonconforming)

Hannah (Two impossible things)

Stephanie (Conserving yourself and why I think I might owe my life to nature)

Stella (Living the dream)

Roxanne (Telling Everybody)

Madhushri (What no one tells you about careers in wildlife)

Lonely Conservationists 2020 Recap

Roxanne (Born this way)

Manon (know your worth)

Michela ( Bush therapy)

Isobel (Curiouser and curiouser)

Matthew (Becoming visible)

Chagi (Getting there)

Taylor (Resilient more than determined)

Nick (The beauty of rock bottom)

Angus (Getting away to feel at home)

Adam (Experience is my education)

By popular demand: How to approach a potential supervisor about doing a PhD.

Jessica (My hometown is on fire)
