Ecology is arguably the most significant subject you could study at university
Climate change and a predicted world population of 9 billion later this century will disrupt life-sustaining ecosytsems and put immense pressure on food and water supplies.
The world needs ecologists now, and even more so in the future.
Graduates are employed by a variety of government departments, agencies and organisations, including the Department of Conservation, in private industry as environmental officers, or in the expanding areas of environmental and cultural impact assessments.