Having graduated from Animal Biology at the University of Gloucestershire, Richie Fourie is now working with rhinos after taking his studies to the next level.<\/p>\n
Richie is studying an\u00a0MSc by Research\u00a0<\/a>and based in South Africa. \u201cI loved the course as an undergraduate and the lecturers were absolutely brilliant in their teaching style and willingness to help us, so when I was offered a spot on an MSc by Res working with them, I was absolutely going to take it!\u201d<\/p>\n Richie has continued in the same subject area as his undergraduate degree, and he is following a lifelong passion to work with animals.<\/p>\n \u201cI love animals and South Africa, as I was born and raised there, so getting an opportunity to do research on a game farm\u00a0on\u00a0really cool\u00a0nocturnal animals was a huge draw\u00a0for\u00a0me.\u00a0Working and doing research on a game farm in South Africa is a real treat\u00a0and something that is fulfilling the childhood dreams I had\u00a0of being a ranger in the Kruger\u00a0National\u00a0Park.\u201d<\/p>\n And it is an experience which will make memories for a lifetime, as well as working towards his career.<\/p>\n \u201cGetting to work with people so\u00a0passionate\u00a0about conservation\u00a0has been an amazing experience. If I\u2019d have to pin it down,\u00a0an absolute high has been getting to be involved in a rhino horn trimming,\u00a0to watch the vets work and be involved in a key part of conserving such an iconic African\u00a0species is something I\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n \u201cGoing on the skills that I have amassed at university I hopefully am going to work on a wildlife reserve or game farm in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n Find out more about our\u00a0research degrees<\/a>\u00a0or book onto our next\u00a0open event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":129000001350,"template":"","tags":[325,654,170,164,655],"cs_subjects":[],"cs_levels_of_Study":[],"schools":[],"class_list":["post-31423","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal-biology","tag-case-study","tag-postgraduate","tag-research","tag-richie-fourie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study\/31423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case_study"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31423"},{"taxonomy":"cs_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_subjects?post=31423"},{"taxonomy":"cs_levels_of_Study","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_levels_of_Study?post=31423"},{"taxonomy":"schools","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schools?post=31423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}