What is Natural Talent?
What does it take to become a BTCV Natural Talent Apprentice?
Why would I want to do it?
For all you Rocky fans out there, you need “The Eye of the Tiger!!”
If you aren’t a Rocky fan, why not?
The BTCV Natural Talent Apprenticeship Scheme (NTAP) aims to develop the Naturalists of the future in particular specialisms identified by many of the leading experts in the conservation sector. Over the past 18 months we have targeted the following;
Coleoptera, Lichens, Hymenoptera, Bryophytes, Grassland Conservation Management, Freshwater Conservation Management, Mycology and Invasive species.
Our Apprentices are taught by the best! Leaders in their field. The facilities that are provided by the placements are outstanding, as is the one-to one tuition that the apprentices receive.
As a Natural Talent Apprentice (NTAP), you be asked to totally immerse yourself in a chosen specialism for perhaps 18 months!! Not the fluffy stuff you see on TV but the challenging, mysterious but equally outstandingly beautiful worlds of invertebrates and lower plants. There is also a focus on habitats too. Or what about Invasive species that are so destructive to our wonderful Natural Heritage? Our future is in your hands, quite literally!! We expect you to be a go-getter, a self-starter, a Johnny Smith type of character (no nonsense)! and above all passionate, committed to your calling and totally focused on the job in hand.
You will be an ambassador for your chosen specialism as well as BTCV Scotland and become a vital cog in the machine that is fighting to save our outstanding Natural Heritage.
The next round of Apprenticeships will be as diverse and equally challenging as the first 9, but the success of the scheme has filled us with confidence that we can deliver great thing over the next few years!
Have you got ‘The Eye of the Tiger?’
cue Rocky theme tune…