What Type Of Work Involves Working/studying In The Rainforest?

Because of the increasing deforestation as you mentioned, many local governments are wanting more researchers to help conserve the forests. You could do this type of work with degrees ranging from a bachelors to masters or PhD. Though I would think the most common thing to do would be to earn a PhD in ecology and work for a university, teaching courses and doing field research. Some people just do research. There are even some organizations that will hire these people to teach summer or semester programs in the rainforest. I was in Costa Rica last year to do ecological research and it is amazing. Maybe you could try to do such a thing to figure out if that’s the type of thing you want to do. You mentioned that you wanted to actually study the actual rainforest, but I wanted to mention that some anthropologists even work with educating the local people on how to practice better farming and other things to help protect the forests. However, as you said, awareness is mostly increased by studying and learning about the actual organisms that all interact together to make the forest what it is. Hope this might help you.

sounds like you need a wildlife biology degree if your wanting to study animal or a Botony degree if your interested in studing the flora and fauna. An ecology degree would work to . just look up careers that your interested in on hotjobs or career builders to find out the qualification.