{"id":1036,"date":"2016-10-24T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:15:26","slug":"1036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/2016\/10\/24\/1036\/","title":{"rendered":"Round River Conservation Studies in Botswana by Kaggie Orrick ’10"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Unknown-7\"<\/a>Kaggie\u00a0Orrick \u201910<\/strong>
\nRound River Conservation Studies<\/b>
\nBotswana Program Leader<\/b>
\nRound River Conservation Studies – Botswana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

From a young age I knew that I wanted to work in the outdoors and hoped my life would be full of great adventures and experiences. When I came to Colby College I became an environmental science major in hopes to realize some of these dreams. When I started looking for abroad programs, I knew that I wanted to contribute to something larger than myself, and to be wowed by the world ahead of me. When I first read about Round River Conservation Studies I knew that was the exact type of program I wanted to participate in. Every program was fieldwork-based and would apply everything that had been taught to me in the classroom into real-life conservation projects. I spent the fall of 2008 in Namibia tracking black rhino through the desert, surveying vegetation plots, counting zebra and other herbivores, and conducting interviews in local communities about the human-wildlife interface in their villages.\"Unknown-9\"<\/a> \"Unknown-6\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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My instructors encouraged and challenged me, and made me realize for the first time this could actually be a career. After graduating from Colby College in 2010, I moved to South Africa and conducted feeding ecology and moments of large carnivores.\u00a0\"Unknown-5\"<\/a> \"Unknown-3\"<\/a> \"Unknown-8\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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After three years of tracking lions, leopards and cheetah, I returned to the States to get my masters in Conservation Biology at Columbia University, with my thesis focusing on anthropogenic effects on elephant movements.\"Unknown-1\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I now am a Botswana program leader for RRCS, conducting community-based wildlife monitoring in the Okavango Delta. To say that my abroad experience had an effect on me would be a grand understatement. RRCS truly opened up my work to a new experience and opportunities I never knew were even possible. I highly encourage anyone to find an abroad program that has the ability to have that type of an impact on your life.<\/span>\"Unknown-10\"<\/a> \"Unknown-7\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kaggie\u00a0Orrick \u201910 Round River Conservation Studies Botswana Program Leader Round River Conservation Studies – Botswana From a young age I knew that I wanted to work in the outdoors and hoped my life would be full of great adventures and experiences. When I came to Colby College I became an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[266376,267203,269355,270517,270881,270994],"tags":[68766,271518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}