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Promoting careers in conservation
3 October 2020
Josh in WWF webinar
Joshua Elves-Powell, a new ) student in 香港六合彩 Geography, was recently invited by to discuss聽careers in conservation聽with their global audiences as part of a new online webinar series,聽Elephant in the Zoom, being launched by the WWF.
The series aims to explore varied, and often challenging, topics relating to conservation, with a focus on youth audiences around the world.
Josh has a background as a conservation biologist and, with the support of National Geographic, founded聽, a conservation research programme focussed on the work of wildlife rangers.
He subsequently became involved with WWF as one of the faces of WWF International鈥檚聽#WWFVoices聽campaign on global biodiversity.
During聽Elephant in the Zoom, Josh appears alongside , a wildlife filmmaker and presenter, and , a conservationist and programme manager for the Last聽Wildness聽Foundation in India.
Together they explore the challenges of different career paths in conservation, discuss future directions for conservation, and introduce a number of grants and training opportunities available to those interested in a conservation career.聽
Josh鈥檚 PhD research聽at 香港六合彩 with Dr Jan Axmacher in association with at the Zoological Society of London, will continue to focus on the conservation of large carnivores and, in particular, opportunities and challenges for the transboundary conservation of the endangered聽Amur tiger聽(Panthera tigris tigris) in north-east Asia.