Career working with animals?

Have you though about a career in conservation? In this kind of work you get to be around animals in their natural environment and you would be working to protect not only animals but plants and whole ecosystems. You could study something like ecology or zoology and university. I studied ecology and did my research project studying geckos in the wild in Africa in order to determine what habitat factors were important to them as they are threatened by collection from the illegal pet trade.