Description
COURSE OVERVIEW
With the Certificate in Wildlife Conservation, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the importance of conserving threatened species. You’ll learn about habitat use, about surveying for wildlife as well as exploring ecological processes and genetic diversity.
COURSE FEATURES
Interact and gain support from expert teachers who are professionally trained and have real world experience. This course covers many aspects of wildlife conservation to provide you with a foundation knowledge of the importance of conserving threatened species. Wild animal species are under threat everywhere and are more important than what most people realize. They’re essential to our ecology in ways that don’t always seem obvious and their need for conservation cannot be overstated.
SUBJECTS
- Introduction to Wildlife Conservation
- Recovery of Threatened Species
- Habitat Conservation
- Approaches to Conservation of Threatened Wildlife
- Vegetation Surveys
- Fauna Surveys
- Marine Conservation
- Planning for Wildlife
- Management
- Wildlife Conservation Project
JOB OUTCOMES
This course is particularly useful for people working in, or aspiring to work in:
- Wildlife Rescue (with animal shelters)
- Animal Protection (Enforcement officers, Rangers dealing with poachers, Conservation Societies)
- Parks Management (in wilderness areas, rural, marine parks)
- Animal Relocation (Catching protected wildlife, like snakes, in residential areas)
- Animal Survey/ Environmental Assessment
- Animal Survey/ Environmental Assessment
