Wildlife career ideas?

I want to be a naturalist but what does that involve. I would love to travel the world so anything that involved animals and traveling the world, that's the job for me!Wildlife career ideas?
You'll have to go ALL the way in school. Start with a bachelor's degree in Biology, taking classes in ecology, animal behavior, classification, evolution... Try to be as diverse as possible at the beginning, so that you'll get a feel for what really interests you. During your bachelors, spend your summers working as a field assistant with professors or grad students. This experience is invaluable, as it will open the door for acceptance into graduate school.





Get good grades and work hard, and you'll be eligible for graduate school scholarships and bursaries, which will allow you to be more choosy as to which professor you want to work with for your Masters and PhD. Profs like students with their own funding. And the prof you choose will determine what type of field work you'll be doing, where and with which species. You can choose your own independent research projects, but it has to be with a prof that has similar interests.





After your PhD, you'll likely have to go for a post doc, working alongside another professor. Eventually, you can become a prof yourself and set up your own research program, have your own grad students and teach as well as pursue your research in the field.





Keep in mind that studying giraffes in Africa is more costly than, say, a local bird species, so if you have great ambitions, you have to work hard and come up with unique yet important research questions so you can get the funding to pursue your dreams.





I have a bachelor's in Zoology, and am currently working on my Masters. It's a lot of work and takes many years, but it's worth it!Wildlife career ideas?
Hello comrade! Its always good to hear from adventerous people who want to help the critters that need them. A bachelor's in General Biology or Wildlife Biology is a great place to start. If you can do the math, physics, and chemistry, this is your best option.





But if you can't tackle the math, you have other options. I plan on being a naturalist, too. But I couldn't do math well enoug to be a full Bio Major.





So I switched to Interdisciplinary studies, practicing General Biology %26amp; Recreation/Tourism Management. With Interdisciplinary Studies, you get to make your own major! Just about anyone with a Recreation %26amp; Tourism Management Degree can be a park ranger, but I think that making your major half Biology will give you the advantage. And because I took





Ornithology


Botany


Local Flora


Parasitology


Entomology


Herpetology (soon)


Chemistry I %26amp; II


Animals as Organisms





I understand wildlife better than most of the people in my recreaton classes. I plan to spend my youth working for parks, aviaries, zoos, environmental education centers, and wildlife rehabbers. With any luck, I'll be able to practice aviculture (raising birds) while I educate the public about wildlife and environmentalism. When I get older, I may start doing more research-related activities.





Working as a naturalist, you'll learn stuff like environmental education (';EE'; for short) and a teaching style called ';nature interpretation';.





If you want to work with animals and trot the globe, try aiming for a degree as a Wildlife Veterinarian, with a focus on exotic species. It takes a lot of math, chemistry, and physics, however. Its just as hard as being a human doctor, but man, what a cool job!





Or you could become a wildlife rehabilitator. The pay is next to nothing, but its great work. Basically, people bring you injured animals. With the help of volunteer veterinarians who will perform surgeries and stuff for free, you fix these critters and send them back into the wild. If there's a critter you can't fix, it lives with you for the rest of its life. Usually, you'll travel around with these animals to schools, parks, etc, teaching people about the animals and even invite onto your home to learn about them. Most rehabilitation centers are non-profit organizations so you won't get rich, but it is an awesome job. You'll need a liscence, but you don't need a Biology degree. My old boss is the most prestigious rehabber in WV, and she is an English major! (I once met a rehabber who was invited to work in Costa Rica.)





Of course, there are also programs for people who specialize in wildlife. For example, you might help out with captive breeding or hacking programs. Captive breeders raise baby endangered species then teach them to live in the wild. ';Hackers'; do the same thing with birds of prey, only they leave out meat for the birds to depend on while they learn to hunt.





There really is a lot out there. When it gets hard, you may have to change your path, but that doesn't mean you can't get where you want to go.
Start young. If you are getting out of school go to college. If you are older, go back to college. Get a degree in Biology. Get a masters in Biology. Get a Doctorate in Bio. During this journey take some ecology classes and specialized classes in animals( zoology). Study animal classification. Get to know the Professor of the colleges and do independent field research with them. Hands on experience with a Professor is an experience that will be very beneficial. These things you cant learn in class. Start taking pictures of all the animals and plants you can and put them into your own library of collections. Learn to research by digging into old books. This type of digging for knowledge makes it stick. Start a bug collection, any type of outside hands own experience will benefit. Keep up the work it will happen if you stick with it, I know, I am in the process of working on this same dream and I am excited to know that there is someone out there who shares this love of the outdoors. Good Luck.