Your day-to-day duties could include:carrying out fieldwork - surveying and recording information on plants, animals, environmental conditions and biodiversity; researching the impact of human activity, like housing and intensive agriculture, on the environment; building computer models to predict the effects of development or climate change monitoring pollution; managing wildlife conservation areas, woodland and meadows

You could work in the countryside, at a university, in an office or in a laboratory.

Your working environment may be outdoors in all weathers.

With experience, you could become a senior ecologist, leading a team of researchers, developing biodiversity plans or acting as a consultant on sustainable development projects.

You may also be able to apply for chartered environmentalist status. You can find out more about being a chartered environmentalist from the Society for the Environment.