William V. Holt • Janine L. Brown
Pierre Comizzoli
Editors

2014

Progress and Prospects

During my time as an environment correspondent with the BBC, people often asked me for advice on how they should prepare for a career attempting to conserve nature or “save the environment” generally. Increasingly, the first thing I said was “become a specialist”. The environment/conservation movement still needs people who will construct placards, cold-call potential funders and make the tea; but increasingly it depends on the expertise of economists, lawyers, scientists and the politically connected to make progress.