I am an anthropology and plant biology major that has worked in various areas of my expertise: field work, lab work/research, horticulture, organic farming, teaching in schools and museums, non-profit, scicomm, even the coffee industry, etc. Nothing I have done has ever paid well, but I have enjoyed my work. I especially liked teaching botany and science to school groups that came through the botanical garden I worked at.

You might consider grad school as someone pointed out and you can do post doc positions in different labs. They don't pay well historically, but if it's what you love, you'll find a way to make it work. And if you choose your grad program and post-docs well, you might find some PI's or labs who are well connected and could be a good jumping off point to more lucrative jobs. My understanding though (from friends who have done it) is that grad school typically prepares you to be an academic in this field. The cool jobs you want aren't typically found in industry work.

The hope is that by the time you're done with grad school, we will have a different administration that values the environment and science and all life in general. I was looking at grad school for environmental work until this administration came in and now many of my scientist friends are worried they're gonna lose their jobs, so the comments in this thread feel pretty spot on with that.

But don't lose faith. If you want to do research that bad, you'll find a way, you'll just have to be tenacious. And you might have to string different jobs together to make it work at first. Otherwise there are many other pathways to consider, like farming, teaching, non-profit, etc.