Lindsay Buckhout

Lindsay Buckhout grew up in and around the Great Lakes of Michigan, USA. She was an avid animal lover from a very young age, and much of her childhood revolved around fostering an intense passion for the natural world and the creatures who inhabit it. Prior to her undergraduate degree, Lindsay joined a research initiative at the Iwokrama Reserve in the heart of Guyana, and an enthusiasm for travel and fieldwork was born.

Lindsay attended the University of Wyoming, graduating with an honours degree in Zoology and the Environment and Natural Resources. Her primary undergraduate research used stable isotope analysis to quantify the flow of nutrients from the invasive, seasonally migratory round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) into the energy web of the Great Lakes. In the summers, Lindsay kept the travel bug alive by joining various international volunteer programs and sustainability courses.

Since graduating, Lindsay has worked primarily in education, discovering a passion for reptiles at the Center for Snake Conservation of Colorado, running programs at AZA-accredited Binder Park Zoo, and bringing the wonders of zoology back to her local elementary and middle school homeschooling students. A recent volunteer project on coral restoration brought her to Mozambique, and after that she was keen to return to southern Africa for the foreseeable future!

As a result of her wide range of experience, Lindsay is drawn to community-led conservation engagement, and she whole-heartedly believes that education is the key to conservation. She is excited to learn from her lecturers as well as her fellow students, and she can’t wait to both refine her technical skills and channel her passions in the Conservation Biology MSc at the FitzPatrick Institute.