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How our friends and family can support us in our conservation careers
My whole life, until Lonely Conservationists came along, I felt, well… lonely in my conservation career. I had a friend in high school who said that I couldn’t protect our forests, even if…
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Why is a deficit mindset so common in conservationists and how can we learn to find abundance?
From the species to the resources that we share our world with, conservationists have a fundamental understanding that these earthly attributes are finite- which is a large proponent of why we are in…
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Why the conservation industry would be better if we started talking about our failures
A wonderful man called Aaron, shout out if you happen to be reading this, once gave me some life-altering advice which was to “make shitty pots.” Individuals who know me in person will…
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5 Reasons why I’ve realised that I need to be MORE than a conservationist
For most of my life, I tried to curate a world where I existed as what I perceived to be, a valid conservationist. I grew up thinking that I was either too young,…
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5 ways I care for myself as a conservationist
I haven’t always cared for myself in my conservation journey. In fact, I know that in the past it has been a point of pride to brag about how I almost died in…
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Introducing myself
Imagine we are in some cringy professional development course and we are asked to introduce ourselves with our name, and why we are here. Most likely, they would also ask us to say…
