Nature conservation officers engage in protection, management and enhancement of the environment. They promote use of the countryside whilst raising awareness of understanding of the natural environment. Part of their role includes developing policy with local and national impacts; setting and promoting targets within national biodiversity action plans.
Job titles within this sector are varied and include: sustainable development officers, project officers or biodiversity officers, conservation assistants and technicians.
Typical work activities
- Promoting and implementing local and national biodiversity action plans
- Keeping up to date with national and international policy and legislation with regard to the environment
- Undertaking fieldwork
- Planning and developing policy for sustainable management
- Providing advice to stakeholders
- Promoting sustainability
- Developing annual management plans
- Helping to select Sites of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI’s)
- Preparing field reports
- Evaluating features of nature conservation infest
- Writing and assessing funding applications
- Contributing to efforts to publicise and help threatened species
- Publicising events of conservation sites through the media
- Educating young people
- Developing visitor attractions
A key feature of the job is working with other people, motivating interest in the general public. The role involves a variety of desk and field based work, planning and implementing policy.
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