Exciting news!
Wow a lot has changed since my last blog update! It’s funny what difference a week makes to the life of someone. As I mentioned on my blog in the beginning, I came to Africa via Namibia to talk to Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) about my future PhD that I will hopefully be starting in September 2012. I also wanted to know if there would be a possibility of me working there after I finish here at ALERT in March. They said they hadn’t got any positions open at that point but that they would let me know if anything did come up. I thought that was probably just them being nice to me and didn’t expect anything to come of it. However, a few weeks ago they contacted me to say their ecologist is leaving next year to continue her postgraduate studies and CCF asked if I would like to take her position. Of course, I jumped at the chance, as CCF is somewhere I have been longing to work ever since I first heard about it. It would tie in nicely with me finis...