Want to learn how the environment and human interaction has impacted animals and what we can do to protect their future? Develop your analytical and research skills to better understand how to conserve and manage animals. Hands-on experience starts in your first year with fieldwork in your local region. During the program, you’ll work with leading researchers on field trips and laboratory research. The program will build your knowledge of animal conservation, biodiversity, marine ecology and animal behaviour. Further develop your research skills in a specialised area with your choice of a guided research project or internship in your final year. As an animal ecologist, your career paths include natural resource and environmental protection agencies, private environmental consultancies and research institutes. Many animal ecologists also pursue opportunities outside the science and health sectors in business, finance, education and sales.

Career opportunities

You can work as an animal ecologist in private environmental consulting; Government and non-governmental agencies; wildlife management and conservation; environmental monitoring and management; museums, and universities. You can also pursue research opportunities in zoology and wildlife biology.

Membership

Graduates will be eligible to become members/associate members of the Ecological Society of Australia, Environmental Institute of Australia, Australian Mammal Society, Australian Marine Science Association, Society for Conservation Biology, Australian Wildlife Management Society, and Australian Physiological Society.