Job in wildlife conservation or conservation biology?

Madlyn Fallis: Most conservation biologists usually work at the state level for fish and game departments or they get a job with the National Park Service (Department of the Interior) or the National Forest system (Department of Agriculture). Some have degrees in natural resource conservatuion as well as wildlife biology. The majority of these people usually just have a bachelor's degree, although some specialists may have a master's or doctorate.To work in a more international scope you would have to seek out a university that has specialized research facilities in such areas as marine biology, ornithology, etc. To get this sort of job would require nothing less than a master's degree--and probably from a prestigious university with international connections....Show more

Marcelle Vanlith: I think Robert gave a pretty exhaustive list! I have a degree in Wildlife Biology, and I can tell you that while there aren't many jobs available at any one time, there are lot! of different options. So it's not like being, say, a computer programmer where there are a lot of jobs in a growing industry. Instead, there are many types of jobs (like that list), but you may have to move to where the job is, and there is a lot of competition for jobs. They also do not pay well, for the most part.