Conservation careers

Explore your future at our online Conservation Careers event!

Are you passionate about protecting nature and considering a career in conservation? Join us for an inspiring online event where you’ll hear directly from professionals working in wildlife conservation across the UK.

Featuring a panel of experts from different areas of conservation, this event will give you real insights into career paths, required skills, and the challenges and rewards of the industry. Our panellists will share their journeys and answer your questions, live.

Designed for students and young professionals, this session will provide real-world insights, career advice, and support your next steps in building a career that makes a positive impact on our planet.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and get inspired.

Confirmed speakers:

• Cath Lawson, Senior Programme Manager, Eastern Africa – Fauna and Flora
• Eleanor Glynne-Jones, Micheal Hearn Intern – Save the Rhino International
• Paul De Ornellas, Chief Advisor, Wildlife – WWF UK

The conversation will be chaired by Save the Rhino’s CEO, Jo Shaw.

About our speakers:

• Cath Lawson currently leads Fauna & Flora’s work in East Africa, heading a team of more than 40 in-country staff operating and working with partners in Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania. She is also the Board Chair for the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. An anthropologist and primatologist by training, Cath has more than 16 years of conservation management experience working for a number of leading environmental NGOs (including the Zoological Society of London, Save the Rhino International, and WWF) and across a diverse portfolio of programmes, in Africa and globally. Her experience includes strategic and technical project and programme design; fundraising and managing large-scale funding from a diverse range of donors; operational oversight of project implementation, including risk management; stakeholder engagement at local to international levels; capacity building for in-country staff and partners; and policy influence
• Paul De Ornellas is the WWF-UK Chief Advisor for Wildlife, acting as the technical and policy lead on wildlife issues and overseeing the WWF UK species programme that supports wildlife related work around the world. His areas of particular interest include, species recovery and conservation planning, addressing illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, ecological connectivity, human wildlife co-existence and wildlife policy. Before joining WWF in 2018, Paul spent 10 years at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), as part of their Africa regional team, lead on Illegal Wildlife Trade and CITES Focal Point. He is also a qualified veterinary surgeon and member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
• Eleanor Glynne-Jones is the current Michael Hearn Intern at Save the Rhino International. Her main roles include managing the charity’s London Marathon team, assisting with the online shop, and developing the charity’s membership schemes. After studying Biological Sciences at UEA and gaining a master’s in Biodiversity and Global Change from UCL, Eleanor is now working towards a career in ecological research, with particular interests in anthropogenic change and migratory species