How To Break Into Wildlife Filmmaking (by making your own luck)
A huge bugbear among many aspiring conservationists, is that most interesting conservation jobs and roles require experience. To get experience, you often need some previous experience.. and so it goes on and on until, eventually, you get lucky.
Read More →
How to get into Conservation in 7 Easy Steps
I find best way to make them ordinary is to surround yourself with extraordinary people.
Read More →
The 12 Types Of Conservation Career (and how to choose which one is for you?)
I want to work in conservation, but I’m not sure where to start.
Read More →
How To Build An Expedition Team
Martin Holland once told me that good leadership is simply ‘effective communication of a vision’.
Read More →
How to make a Conservation Film and make a Difference (..starting with this book)
If you’re alive now (and you are), then you’re alive at just about the most important time in human history for conservation.
Read More →
What Next? How To Build On Your First Expedition
Expeditions can feel like the culmination of months or years of hard work, and the comedown of stepping back into reality can be strange. But just as they say ‘it’s better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all’ – the same is true for expeditions.
Read More →
How To.. Choose A Camera To Take On Expedition (and how to keep it safe)
Photography is an incredibly important tool in conservation. You can have all the data and research papers in the world, but unless you inspire action then conservation will remain an uphill struggle.
Read More →
How To Choose Which Conservation Charity To Support (with your hard earned cash)
If you want to support conservation, I think that there’s two main ways to do it.
Read More →
How To Get The Most Out Of Biological Expeditions
Last month, Craig Turner and I were excited to have an article in The Biologist magazine about biological expeditions, something which we are both pretty passionate about.
Read More →
Lessons From A Successful Thunderclap
Spend time crafting your message, tell a good story and publicise your campaign.
Read More →
How To Set Up A Social Enterprise For Conservation
I think the most important thing to say, right from the start, is that you don’t have to know what you’re doing.
Read More →
How to.. Set Up A Conservation Blog
Conservation is a great thing to write about, and for this reason I’m frequently get emails from people thinking of starting their own websites and blogs. To help answer their questions, I thought I’d share a few of the things I learn’t from setting up my own site.
Read More →Recent Articles:
Resources:
Aspiring conservationist? Interested in expeditions and adventure? Browse some resources that might be useful…
