CJS Professional: February 2023
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As there are so many vacancies this month we're omitting the usual list of job titles in an attempt to prevent the contents becoming too long! There is still a huge of amount of information in this month's edition so I'm not entirely sure we've succeeded in our attempts at brevity. Were we to try to print it all my print preview tells me we'd need 194 pages.
Contents:
Click the headers to browse each section, or click on each
item
60 adverts for posts
included in this edition.
We have a wide range of vacancies this month: over
a dozen countryside management focused jobs, plus two gardeners and four farm
based roles, there are 18 ecology orientated roles and seven working in forestry
and arboriculture.
Apprenticeship, trainees and
interns
This week 6-12 February is National
Apprenticeship Week. Find out more about Apprenticeships and Interns,
posts available and how to advertise your vacancies here.
One advert included here: Working with Rivers
Graduate Placement Scheme with NatureScot [more]
A Meet the CJS
Team post: 20 February 2023 is Love Your Pet Day. As you
are probably aware the dogs form an integral part of the CJS Office Team, some
of you even asked us for more updates about them in the last readers survey.
Life is not always plain sailing when you have pets so for Love Your Pet Day
we're sharing an update about Office Dog Flora.
What's your after dinner
routine? Once the last plate is dried and put away I get nudged by a cold, wet,
black nose saying: "It's trick training time".[more]
Second article from our Featured Charity: The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES).
This time we're looking at how you can get involved with their vital work.
Citizen science, conservation and a changing world written
by David Wembridge (Mammal Surveys Coordinator), Laura Bower (Conservation
Officer) & Emily Sabin (Water Vole Officer).
Wildlife conservation
relies on an extraordinary workforce. Across the country, tens of thousands of
local experts are walking along hedgerows and waterways, in community orchards
and back gardens and over Ordnance Survey grid squares they barely know,
collecting data on buds and birds, butterflies and bats, and doing the
groundwork of conservation. Recording species and habitats as part of ongoing
surveys is at the core of conservation, providing information about how our
world is changing. We need to know what we’re losing, where and how quickly, and
whether efforts to save it are working. [more]
Features and In Depth Features
The elephant in the room by Nigel
Jones, Project Leader at APP Studio UX
Have you really considered
the environmental cost of those paper leaflets for your visitor site? When you
really take a close look at a clean sheet ofpaper, on it's face it wouldn’t
strike you as polluting, but it really is. There’s no two ways about it. To see
the true carbon footprint of paper and how more people are opting to move to
digital information for their visitors, it might shock you! [more]
Sustainable Communications: what is it
and how do you embrace it? By Mark Sutcliffe, communications consultant
at Salar Media Services
Some great ideas of how to make your communications
more sustainable. Everyone is so busy and there are so many options for
promotion but are you always getting the most from your time? Work out how much
time/money you are spending on digital marketing and ask yourself if you can
comfortably continue carrying this overhead. If the answer is a resounding ‘no’
then it’s time to re-assess and re-prioritise. [more]
How Green Infrastructure Standards can
deliver better placemaking By Sophie Jones, Communications and Learning
Manager at Building With Nature
High-quality green infrastructure (GI) plays
a critical role in placemaking, offering a nature-led design approach that
delivers biodiversity gains, nature
recovery and climate resilient
development, whilst also delivering healthy, inclusive communities at a
neighbourhood and landscape-scale, with practical and impactful nature-based
solutions. Building with Nature,the UK’s first GI benchmark, provides developers
and policy-makers with an evidence-based definition of high-quality GI and how
to deliver it. [more]
For
World Wetlands Day which was on 2 February.
Wetlands, flooding, and floodplains. Arguably the
most abused landscape in Britain? By Professor Neil Entwistle,
Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience at University of Salford,
Manchester
Did you know we're witnessing the near complete destruction of
wetland habitats on floodplains across England? The University of Salford has
been looking at this in a lot of detail and recent research has discovered that
on the 555 UK floodplains they studied, 85% of rivers had no wetland associated
with them at all, AND 25% of all wetland plants and animals are now at risk of
extinction. [more]
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January was the International Day of Education and we profiled the National
Association for Environmental Education
Living and
Working as though Nature Mattered By Professor William Scott, NAEE
Chair of Trustees
The National Association for Environmental Education UK is
aware that many young people who follow environmental courses and qualifications
do so with a career in mind. But learning about how you can support the planet
needs to start in primary school & be built in to everyone’s education
surely? [more]
Last week (30 January to 5
February) was National Storytelling Week
Writing a
Sustainable Future By Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Practice,
University of Southampton
Can we write for a sustainable
future? Denise Baden, author of Habitat Man believes we can! By running the
GreenStories Project, she aims to move beyond preaching to the converted to
share climate solutions using fiction. This year they have been working with
Herculean Climate Solutions
and the Climate Fiction Writer’s League to
compile an anthology of climate solutions wrapped in short stories. Each story
linking to where
more details on the solutions embedded in the story can be
found. The key goal is to inspire readers to take action and make it as easy as
possible for them to do so. [more]
Featured for Squirrel Appreciation
Day on 21 January
Bioacoustics as a tool for red
squirrel conservation By Will Cresswell, PhD candidate University of
Bristol
The traditional way to monitor red squirrel populations is via manual
survey methods, which are labour intensive & require experienced observers.
Will, a PhD student at University of Bristol is exploring whether bioacoustics
can be used to monitor squirrels, slow the spread of the grey and keep reds
safely in their strongholds whilst expanding their reach. The study is supported
by Mammal Society. [more]
As part of our Apprenticeship Week coverage we're sharing a job profile of a Trainer/Assessor – Countryside and Water Environment at Bridgwater and Taunton College. Read this one here and see more profiles here.
We also interviewed Anna: Assistant Apprentice Ranger on Countryside worker level 2 apprenticeship with the National Trust Anna had tried a number of roles, but fancied a change that would allow her to follow her passion for nature and the outdoors and this apprenticeship was the perfect fit. [more]
CJS Editorial Assistant Emily wrote
a piece for Reclaim Social Media day which was on Tuesday:
Don't Feed the Trolls
If you’ve spent any real time
beneath the surface of the internet you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘Don’t feed
the Trolls’ and it’s probably the best piece of advice you can get, especially
when it comes to social media. [more]
Ahead of World Seagrass Day on 1
March
The importance of saving the worlds
seagrass By Bethan Thomas, Communications and Engagement Lead at
Proejct Seagrass
If you’ve never heard of seagrass, you’re not alone. It is
the hidden wonder of the marine world. Seagrasses form a complex ecosystem that
offers shelter for many diverse marine species. They also draw in vast
quantities of carbon and can lock this away in their sediment for thousands of
years.
The Proejct's goal is to make seagrass a familiar habitat to
everyone, so it is no longer overlooked but given the attention it deserves. Get
involved
with Project Seagrass this World Seagrass Day by spreading the
word, attending one of our events or by going out and spotting seagrass with
SeagrassSpotter. [more]
New Feature This
Month
Our lovely articles deserve more than one reading and
sometimes they get lost in the general noise of busy social media feeds. We're
including basic details of these features and articles which have been shared
for a second time across social media.
This month there are seven reshared
features, see the details here.
CJS Focus on
Volunteering in association with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) included in full.
8 articles and 80 voluntary roles
along with lots of volunteering opportunities across the UK so have a look
through the regions for something you can get involved in.
Features from CJS Focus on Working with Wildlife in
association with The Wildlife Trusts.
Careers in
wildlife rehabilitation, where to start and what to expect By: George
Bethell, Learning and Engagement Officer at Secret World Wildlife Rescue who
gives us a verbal tour around the Centre. More information here or read the
article here.
Job Profile: Senior Zookeeper at British
Wildlife Centre By: Millie Sewell. Millie works closely with a wide
range of British mammals, reptiles, and birds providing them with the best care
possible enabling them to thrive within captivity. More information here or read the
article here.
Several big announcement
from Government this month: The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs, Thérèse Coffey detailed plans stating that farmers central to
food production and environmental action. Joint announcement from Defra, Natural
England and the Forestry Commission outlining an ambitious roadmap for a
cleaner, greener country. Separately Natural England unveils new Green
Infrastructure Framework. With responses from Woodland Trust, NFU, The Wildlife
Trusts and CPRE. whilst the The Climate Change Committee says a lack of
leadership is preventing essential investment to prepare the UK for climate
change.There was a bombshell from Wildlife and Countryside Link: “An economic
and environmental wrecking ball” – new figures reveal ripping up of retained EU
laws could cost £82bn for the UK. The Wildlife Trusts also denounced the bill
and gave the Government a list of the top 10 issues for nature’s recovery in
2023 - Northumberland Wildlife Trust.
In more cheerful news anew study finds
that trees and woodlands provide over £400m each year in fight against flooding,
published by Defra and the Forestry Commission. Red Squirrel Appreciation Day
was a couple of weeks ago and of course that meant squirrel news! Red squirrel
release at Castle Ward sparks fresh hope say Ulster Wildlife and from Squirrel
Accord a new action plan to save England’s red squirrels. There was fabulous
news for Britain’s loneliest old bat too as the Greater mouse-eared bat
population doubles - to 2! “This is a hugely important discovery” said Bat
Conservation Trust.
Calendar of events and short courses occurring in April plus additions made over the past month.
The next edition of CJS Professional will be published on: 9 March
Got something to share or want to advertise? The deadline is: 5pm Monday 6 March
Contact us by email: ranger@countryside-jobs.com