You’ve got to be the kind of person who’s okay with hatchings and fledglings: the hatching of dreams and birds, and the eventual fledging of both.
You’ve got to be the kind of person who’s got some pluck: not of feathers, but of the stick-to-it-iveness that comes with durable conservation goals.
Finally, you’ve got to be the kind of person who’s okay with long goodbyes. Like two-year, 10-foot wingspan long goodbyes.
Leah Esquivel is that kind of person.
“I’ve been working here for seven years and I love it,” Esquivel, propagation manager at The Peregrine Fund in Boise, Idaho, said. “I worked at some zoos and a few other places, but when I saw the opening here I thought it was amazing. Luckily, I got the job.”