Ecological consulting as a career option

It was a warm afternoon in the Liwonde Forest Reserve in southern Malawi, and I was with a team of botanists and foresters, field-testing a methodology for rapid botanical surveys. We would be using this methodology in our consulting work for the Shire River Basin Management Program, funded by the World Bank through a grant to the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Water Development. In addition to the botanical surveys, we were...