Weekly Environmental Jobs List - August 23

I'm Giacomo Abrusci, and welcome the weekly environmental jobs list brought to you by SEVENSEAS Media. Here you'll find land ecosystems jobs that cover biodiversity, air, climate, and everything in between. Ocean jobs and announcements appear in a different edition of this same newsletter. If you would like to contribute jobs or announcements, email them to [email protected].

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NEWS ? REPORTS ? ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lessons From a Burning Forest As a reporter, I’ve experienced the aftermath of several disasters, including dam bursts, landslides and floods. But nothing quite prepared me to witness the extent of the destruction in Canada’s boreal forests that I saw in June, one year after the record-breaking wildfires of 2023. At one point, my colleague Bryan Denton and I drove for an entire hour and saw almost no living trees in the forests we could see from the road. Much of the landscape was covered with blackened stumps of trees that burned last year. Residents told us the burned trees revealed hills, rivers and towns that they had never seen before. Read more...

The rangers turning the DRC’s ‘triangle of death’ back into a thriving wildlife reserve Ranger Sylvain Musimi had just risen from his morning coffee around the campfire when the rebels opened fire. It was early morning, in the mid-January humidity of Upemba National Park. Sixteen suspected members of the Bakata Katanga militia faces daubed in white war paint, surprised the party of four rangers only 5.5 miles (9km) from Upemba’s base camp. ?Musimi, 50, was shot four times in the thigh but managed to flee into the bush. A younger colleague, who was nearer the campfire, was shot dead. Read more...

Reporting confirms alleged Indigenous rights violations in Nepal hydropower project The list of alleged crimes and lies is long: accusations of forging local signatures, signing children’s names on contracts, creating false reports, bulldozing through farmlands under the cover of night and trapping sacred animals. While speaking with Mongabay, Karma Bhutia had dozens of legal documents running through his hands, spilling over his desk, enough to fill a book, all pointing to Sangrila Urja Pvt. Ltd., a Nepali hydropower company. The Chyamtang activist and adviser to the Chyamtang-Kathmandu Welfare Society was exasperated. “They [the company] put price tags on our rivers, our sacred forests and biodiversity and did not even ask what we wanted,” Karma said. “If not for the community’s resistance, we would have lost everything at the hands of government.” Read more...

New Opportunities

1. Campaign Associate, Environment America, Oakland, CA

2. Conservation Landscaping/Planting & Habitat Restoration Technician, The Natural Garden, Inc. , Harrisonburg, VA

3. North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative Coordinator, Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board , Wenatchee, WA

4. Finance Manager, Beaver Watershed Alliance , Elkins, AR

5. Manager – Donor Communications (Proposals, Reports, & Strategy), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, DC

6. Dry Stone Mason-Trail & Restoration Technician, The Natural Garden Inc., Harrisonburg, VA

7. Science Educator, Chewonki Foundation , Wiscasset, ME

8. Restoration and Fire Projects Manager, LONG TOM WATERSHED COUNCIL , Eugene, OR

9. Technical Officer, International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), San José, Costa Rica

10. Regional Project Coordinator, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

11. Senior Programme Coordinator, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Colombo, Sri Lanka

12. Finance Officer, IUCN Lao PDR, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Vientiane, Lao

13. Project Officer, TRAFFIC International (TRAFFIC), Hanoi, Viet Nam

14. Finance Administrator,?TRAFFIC International (TRAFFIC),?Cambridge, United Kingdom

15. Environmental Scientist,?California State Water Resources Control Board,?San Luis Obispo, CA

16. EPA Epidemiology Fellowship,? US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,?Chapel Hill, NC

17. Southern Oregon Land Program Manager,? Oregon Agricultural Trust ,?Portland, OR

18. Inland Northwest Grassroots Organizer,? Save Our Wild Salmon ,?Spokane, WA

19. Senior Attorney – Midwest,? Earthjustice ,?Chicago, IL

20. GIS Coordinator,? Minnehaha Creek Watershed District ,?Minnetonka, MN

21. Hydrogeologist Sr.,? Travis County , Texas,?Austin, TX

22. Director, Climate Projects – Asia Pacific,? Conservation International ,?Singapore (Remote)

23. Blue Carbon Technical Lead,?Conservation International,?Australia

24. Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) Coordinator,?Arafura Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Corporation (ASRAC),?Regional NT, Australia

25. Climate Change & Emissions Reduction Officer,? Corangamite Shire Council ,?Regional Vic

26. Leading Hand Natural Areas Wagirra (Apply by August 25, 2024),? AlburyCity ,?New South Wales, Australia

27. Junior Contaminated Land Scientist,? Epic Environmental ,?Brisbane, Australia

28. Contaminated Land Professionals,?The Public Transport Authority of Western Australia,?Perth, Australia

29. Senior Director Aviation, Shipping & Energy,? T&E ,?Brussels, Belgium

30. Renewables Solar PV Senior Consultant,?RINA,?Brighton, United Kingdom

Internship & Volunteer Opportunities

1. DHP Archaeology Collections Intern, NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany, NY

2. Community Affairs Intern, NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany, NY

3. Interpretative Unit Support Intern,? FORCES NYS Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation ,?Albany, NY

4. Border Restoration Intern,? Arizona Conservation Corps ,?Tucson, AZ

5. Communications Intern,? Washington State Department of Natural Resources ,?Olympia, WA