Hi everyone,

I've been following stuff on the sub for a while & from what I've seen, this'll be a long shot. I'm in the 4th year of my undergrad & am as such thinking about next steps.

**Preamble, skip if uninterested**

It's been a crazy semester, but things are starting to quiet down and so I've had a bit of free time to watch Netflix. I started Our Planet with David Attenborough, and I was a bit hesitant to carry on watching it because I expected there to be a good deal of pessimism about ecological outlooks. I'm on the 2nd episode...and I have to stop. If anyone's familiar, this one's about the poles & how global warming's impacting these regions more heavily than anywhere else. It talks a good deal about how everything is dependent upon seasonal ice formation and melting. The last scene I watched centred around walruses & how in the past, they'd be able to have small colonies that'd rest/feed from ice sheets, though with total frozen surface area greatly diminished, they're mostly congregating in narrow stretches of rocky shores. Some leave the shores for space & climb cliffs, which is no small feat for a walrus. There's a shot of one of these lone animals, either intentionally or not, falling off of a cliff as it tries to return to the water. This absolutely broke me.

**Question**

I've been pretty drawn to nature and sensitive towards the anthropogenic impacts on it throughout my life, but I'm now greatly interested in exploring if there's a way to apply biochemistry into a conservation-oriented context. Whether this be directly as a field scientist, or something more distal, like an environmental lawyer, is it possible to apply my background to wildlife conservation?

If there's any guidance you guys can offer, it's greatly appreciated.