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If policy shifts and funding cuts threaten conservation initiatives, what can I do to help push for lasting change?
I’m a high school senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, planning to attend either the University of Connecticut or the University of Missouri-Columbia to pursue a career in wildlife veterinary medicine. While I’m excited about my future, I’m increasingly anxious about how the growing disregard for sustainability and conservation today could limit opportunities for wildlife veterinarians and hinder crucial efforts to protect vulnerable ecosystems in the years ahead.
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Hi Grace,
While I don't have any formal background or experience in the specific area of sustainability, conservation, or veterinary medicine, I do feel my experiences and observations throughout my career across business in different disciplines as well as size, help to lend some advice.
If you want to push towards lasting change, the best advice I can give is to get involved, and stay involved. Start small and local, whether that is in the city you live in or will move to. Find clubs, organizations, and volunteer activities that put you right in the middle of the sustainability and conservation efforts around you. Get involved with wildlife refuge centers or veterinary clinics that serve wildlife, which will help give you a first-hand account of working being done locally, nationally, or globally, as well as work that still needs to be done.
Lastly, I encourage you to get involved in your local government, reaching out to your local congressional leaders to find out what they are doing within the community to help support sustainability and wildlife efforts.
These steps may also help to shine a light on what private & public companies, as well as the government, are doing in the short and long term to help with these efforts.
Starting small helps you to not only feel but SEE the impacts you can make, help you to build network(s), gain insight, and reach further out as you continue to further yourself and your career.
While I don't have any formal background or experience in the specific area of sustainability, conservation, or veterinary medicine, I do feel my experiences and observations throughout my career across business in different disciplines as well as size, help to lend some advice.
If you want to push towards lasting change, the best advice I can give is to get involved, and stay involved. Start small and local, whether that is in the city you live in or will move to. Find clubs, organizations, and volunteer activities that put you right in the middle of the sustainability and conservation efforts around you. Get involved with wildlife refuge centers or veterinary clinics that serve wildlife, which will help give you a first-hand account of working being done locally, nationally, or globally, as well as work that still needs to be done.
Lastly, I encourage you to get involved in your local government, reaching out to your local congressional leaders to find out what they are doing within the community to help support sustainability and wildlife efforts.
These steps may also help to shine a light on what private & public companies, as well as the government, are doing in the short and long term to help with these efforts.
Starting small helps you to not only feel but SEE the impacts you can make, help you to build network(s), gain insight, and reach further out as you continue to further yourself and your career.