Field Skills For Wildlife Management Careers

Operation Wallacea is a biodiversity and climate research organisation who have been running research expeditions for the last 25 years all over the world. Our projects are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind and the data gathered is fed directly into management plans to conserve threatened ecosystems. Opwall ran their first expedition back in 1995 to Indonesia, and since then they have worked in over 19 different countries from Mexico to Madagascar. Our data has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Global Change Biology and Conservation Biology, and in 2022 we hit the 600 paper milestone.

Opwall are also running UK field courses at the Knepp Estate in West Sussex. The Knepp Estate is one of Britain's premier rewilding sites, and it offers an incredible environment for volunteers to learn about rewilding, and gain valuable skills training to help them enter the conservation/ecology career sector both in the UK and internationally. Alongside basic R training, volunteers will learn methods for UKHAB assessment and DEFRA biodiversity scores as well as learn how to calculate carbon storage and sequestration.

2023 Dates

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 18 June – 24 June 2023

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 25 June – 1 July 2023

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 9 July – 15 July 2023

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 16 July – 22 July 2023

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 23 July – 29 July 2023

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 30 July – 5 August 2023

Full expeditions:

1 week: 1 week terrestrial only – 2 July – 8 July 2023