GreenMatter Priority Skills
The GreenMatter Fellowship brings together a cohort of dynamic, talented and committed biodiversity practitioners, with the objective of developing and unlocking their potential. It affords participants the opportunity to fully engage in tackling biodiversity issues through their study and career paths, alongside peers who share in that commitment.
GreenMatter have identified the following priority skills areas within the biodiversity sector that they are targeting. These skills specialisations are:
GreenMatter have identified the following priority skills areas within the biodiversity sector that they are targeting. These skills specialisations are:
- Agricultural extensionists with biodiversity specialism;
- Bioinformatics: ICT specialists and technicians with biodiversity skills
- Curators of biodiversity collections;
- Ecologists: esp. in marine but also aquatic and terrestrial systems;
- EIA practitioners;
- Engineers (civil) with biodiversity specialism;
- Lawyers with environmental specialism;
- Geneticists: molecular biology with a specialisation in biodiversity conservation (as opposed to commercial applications);
- GIS specialists and technicians;
- Human Capital Development: High level biodiversity education and HCD specialists;
- Monitoring specialists, species protection officers and inspectors;
- Policy developers & analysts, urban & regional planners with biodiversity insight;
- Protected area managers;
- Resource economists with biodiversity related specialism;
- Social scientists specialising in environment, indigenous biodiversity knowledge;
- Social ecologists:
- Soil scientists;
- Statistical ecologists & modellers;
- Taxonomists; and
- Wildlife veterinarians.
