Eel ecologist The job: Conserving the critically endangered European eel  What it involves: To monitor the size of the endangered eels, ecologists wade into the Thames and other London rivers and marshes full of eels, sometimes up to their armpits, and reach into a net fi lled with up to 20 adult eels to grab one with their bare hands.

Eel ecologist The job: Conserving the critically endangered European eel  What it involves: To monitor the size of the endangered eels, ecologists walk into the Thames and other London rivers full of eels, sometimes up to their armpits, and reach into a net filled with up to 20 adult eels to take one out with their bare hands.
