Ecology & Wildlife Conservation

BSc (Hons) Ecology & Wildlife Conservation

Delivery method: Full-time
Course Reference: BSEWC

Course Overview

Wildlife conservation offers a rewarding and exciting career in protecting global bio-diversity.

This BSc course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to ecology and wildlife conservation, applying theory to real issues. Fieldwork is a very important part of the course as we consider it to be the most effective and enjoyable way for students to learn how to assess ecosystems. Students carry out fieldwork in a diverse range of internationally important habitats surrounding the University, including heathlands, forests and coastal habitats. Students also participate in a week- long overseas field course.

Placement students can gain experience with potential UK employers such as the Environment Agency, the Wildlife Trusts, Natural England, the National Trust and Forest Enterprise. Other placements with international conservation projects include mapping distributions of primates and big cats in tropical forests, helping the conservation of turtles nesting on Mediterranean beaches and monitoring whales feeding and breeding off the coast of South Africa.

Graduates will be well equipped to find employment with the above organisations or others such as environmental consultancy firms and local authorities. Alternatively, they may progress to Masters courses and further research.

Mature student entry is encouraged, candidates being considered based upon relevant professional experience and/or qualifications.

The Student experience
Our mission at Bournemouth is to train and provide you with the scientific knowledge and skills to inform policy development and implementation allowing you to make a difference in the World in which we live. We live in a rapidly changing environment, the consequence of the interplay of an array of natural, social, economic and political factors. These factors determine the geography of the physical, urban, economic and cultural environments in which we live and have a profound impact on the way we manage and exploit our environment. The conservation of biological systems and the environment in which they function is an essential component of sustainable development.