Birds' nests, great crested newts and squirrels are just part of a normal working day for environment specialist Michelle Chrabalowski.
米歇尔花了她童年在树林里露营，学习所有关于昆虫的人 - 但从未想过她可以找到一个在铁路上帮助野生动物的工作。听到为什么米歇尔这样的环境专家对铁路非常重要，以及如何让你对生物多样性和可持续性的魅力与我们的职业生涯。
This国际妇女节, Michelle featured in a新旗舰电影告诉年轻人在英国，铁路正在改变越来越好。Watch the full film we made in partnership with train operator Southeastern.
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What’s your job?
我是铁路上的环境专家。我所做的事情与我们铁路周围的土地和水有关。这包括我们的线条植被，地区的生态学......以及任何可以泄漏或污染铁路贯穿的环境的东西。
铁路是否拥有很多土地？
亚搏彩票软件官网网络铁路是英国所有最大的土地所有者之一，我们有这种多样化的栖息地和环境非常有趣。我们经历了特别敏感的地区，特殊科学兴趣（SSSI），铁路确实经历了许多人，所以我们拥有的许多品种以及我们如何管理它。
为铁路工作提供了许多独特而多样化的工作，只是因为地理区域非常大......您在海岸发现的物种与您在伦敦市中心找到的物种完全不同，您需要准备好处理环境问题......与所有这些类型的环境相关联。
Managing habitats by the railway
铁路是否认真对待环境？
As a railway, we’re getting better and better at making it a priority and making running a sustainable railway so that things like stopping work if we encounter protected species, making sure that we’re doing all the ecological checks and also improving our lineside biodiversity management.
我们在整个路线中都有一个环境冠军网络，我们不仅越来越好减轻，而且还可以在防止措施，并且在铁路内变得越来越多。
为什么获得更多对铁路工作的环境和可持续发展感兴趣的人很重要？
因为它是一个如此大的土地所有者对环境产生了很大的影响。这不仅仅是铁路本身，而是我们所有的线路邻居，我们的线条上的所有栖息地都受到铁路的影响......
The more people who have an interest in it, the more people see that it’s important to put time and effort towards managing that properly, the better not only for the running of the railway, better sustainability but also for the lineside neighbours, the people who are on the railway who can look out and see nice habitats, nice environment and have a nicer journey as well.
Gallery: some the biodiversity by the railway
What do you hope the railway will have achieved in 10 years in terms of looking after the environment and biodiversity?
One of the projects we’re working on right now is the Sustainable Land Use programme and part of that is improving biodiversity on the lineside. With that, we’re trying to map the habitats along the lineside and see if there’s anything we can do to improve that biodiversity.
What do you hope your generation will be remembered for?
A可持续的铁路. The railway is a very sustainable form of transportation already but there are always improvements we can use in terms ofenergy useto power the trains, how to manage our lineside…
当你在成长时，你想成为什么？
我知道我想在户外工作，也是理想的是与人和动物一起......我认为我现在的工作符合这些事情。当我年轻的时候，我并不知道这种角色存在。
We spent a lot of time camping from when I was a very young child… What I loved was the variety of things one might see. If you looked one way you might see a rabbit or a squirrel, or if you looked another way you might see a body of water, which was more interesting than just sitting in a classroom and seeing four walls around me.
Did it surprise you that you could do this on the railway?
It’s surprised me to find a role like this at Network Rail because I didn’t know Network Rail was such a large landowner. It’s sensible that any large landowner would have environment specialists or people taking care of their land and water but what I didn’t know was how much land the railway affects and has.
Has anything else surprised you about the railway?
铁路的社区感觉 - 你有不同的团队做出完全不同的东西，所有这些都具有运行安全，可靠和可持续的铁路的共同目标。
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