Wildlife Conservation 100 Hours Certificate Course

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With a generation of wildlife professionals retiring, and a number of worldly trends now impacting our wildlife more than ever, now is the time to train as a wildlife professional.

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About this course

Develop a concept of the guiding principles of wildlife conservation and the threats to wildlife.
Determine the principles and approaches used towards species recovery.
Discuss the principles of habitat conservation with regards to fragmentation, restoration and the use of protected areas.
Describe and discuss the various approaches used to conserve threatened species and ecosystems.
Appreciate the range of flora survey techniques that have been developed to sample fauna for the purposes of conservation.
Discuss and differentiate between fauna survey techniques that have been developed to sample fauna for the purposes of conservation.
Discuss and differentiate between marine survey techniques used to conserve wildlife.
Discuss and differentiate the range of planning tools available for farming, urban and residential planning to help conserve wildlife.
Identify various management techniques used to conserve wildlife.
Develop a wildlife recovery plan for a species under threat.

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Subjects

  • Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Approach

Course programme

There are 10 lessons:

  1. Introduction to Wildlife Conservation
    • Terminology
    • Biodiversity indicators
    • Threatening processes habitat fragmentation, habitat degradation and loss, soil degradation, erosion, pollution, unsustainable harvesting, invasive species, climate change, population isolation and disease.
    • Important concepts ecology, ecosystem, biome, conservation values, biological diversity, genetic drift, habitat, life span, wildlife movement and wildlife management.
    • The need for wildlife conservation
    • What is wildlife conservation
  2. Recovery of Threatened Species
    • Public involvement
    • Translocation
    • Captive breeding
    • Research population growth, habitat use and conservation genetics
    • Habitat Conservation identifying critical habitat and protecting habitat
    • Recovery of species and threat management
    • Species vulnerability to endangerment
    • Loss of species a categories of risk
  3. Habitat Conservation
    • The Role of Protected Areas a levels of protection, approaches to reserve selection and limitation of reserves.
    • The Role of GIS in Conservation
    • Habitat Rehabilitation a implementing a land management program, determining objectives, determining a program
    • Restoration Ecology creating habitat corridors, situating corridors, types of corridors, edge effects
    • Creating Habitats
    • Habitat Fragmentation
    • Species Richness
    • Habitat Use
    • Types of Habitat a eg. temperate and tropical forests, woodland, tundra and mangrove habitats
    • Habitat
  4. Approaches to Conservation of Threatened Wildlife
    • Species Approach modelling demography, effective population size, small populations, population viability analysis (PVA)alt
    • Landscape Approach a elements of landscape ecology, distribution of populations within a landscape, landscape modelling
    • Ecosystem Approach the need for ecosystem management, understanding dynamics, adaptive management, objectives for ecologically sustainable forest management.
  5. Vegetation Surveys
    • Vegetation Mapping remote sensing data.
    • Vegetation survey techniques such as quadrat surveys, landscape assessments, line surveys.
    • Plant Identification common names, scientific names, levels of division, botanical keys.
  6. Fauna Surveys
    • Species identification
    • Trapping Techniques radio tracking, call recordings, pit fall traps, Elliot traps.
    • Observation techniquesspotlighting, scat surveys, census techniques
  7. Marine Surveys
    • Commercial Fish Stock Management
    • Overexploitation
    • Aerial Surveys
    • Habitat Surveys
    • Reef Surveys
  8. Planning for Wildlife
    • Use of GIS
    • Residential Planning
    • Urban Planning
    • Farm Planning
  9. Management
    • Managing Threatened Wildlife Populations â?? manipulating populations, revegetation/restoration, creating corridors, pest control plans, fencing for species, fire breaks.
  10. Wildlife Conservation Project

Wildlife Conservation 100 Hours Certificate Course

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