ENS 1040 Issues in Animal Conservation
Across the globe, wildlife populations are being lost at an alarming rate. Climate change, habitat loss, and emerging diseases are just a few threats faced by wildlife. Thus, wildlife ecologists and managers face an enormous challenge and an important responsibility to understand wild populations as a first step in projecting them. In addition, conservation action requires not just an understanding of basic biology, but also recognition of human need, political will, economic constraints, and the complicated laws that govern wild resources. In this class, we will focus on the basic biology, distribution, and interaction between wild populations within the framework of real-world conservation issues. We will apply basic ecological principles to studying wild populations at multiple levels: 1) the individuals, 2) the population, and 3) the community. Wildlife ecology has traditionally encompassed amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, and we will primarily focus on these group.
Course Types
Science
Offered
Winter
Notes
No credit toward the Environmental Studies major, the Environmental and Ecological Science major or Environmental and Sustainability Studies minor.