• Question: If you had enough money to create a company about animals and science, would you do it and how would you run it.

    Asked by anon-292585 to Sian on 21 Apr 2021.
    • Photo: Sian Green

      Sian Green answered on 21 Apr 2021:

      I already work with a non-profit organisation called MammalWeb, and it is about animals and science but also people. It is a citizen science project, which means anyone (members of the public) can take part – and we need as many people take part as possible because the project aims to study wild mammals by collecting footage of them with camera traps (motion sensitive cameras). By getting more people to take part it means we can collect more data to be able to study these animals, but the project can also help people learn about the wild animals that live near them.

      I think connecting people and wildlife is very important so people can understand why conservation is important so if I was to start a company it would be about this in some way – although I don’t know how it would make money, which might be problem!

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    Ed commented on :

    I would run a company that protects marine animals from fishing, did you know that thousands of dolphins a year killed in the sea just to the west of France in fishermen’s nets. One of the ways to make a difference is know as ‘lobbying’ where researchers gather evidence to get governments and the EU to change the laws on fishing.