Duration
9h Th, 2h Pr, 4h SEM, 3h FT
Number of credits
| Master in forests and natural areas engineering (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course propose a review of different types of wildlife management.
1. Internationals tools of conservation
2. Management of tourism and game activity
3. Wildlife management in tropical forest
4. Capture and cropping
5. Human-wildlife conflicts
6. Zoo and sanctuarys in conservation strategies
7. Wildlife breeding
8. Management plan
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Starting with lectures and reviewing articles that express opposite opinions, wildlife management methods are presented to the students. After completing the course the student is expected to propose methods that reconcile social, ecological and economic aspect for a participatory sustainable management of wildlife.He will be also capable of developping a critical and ethic mind on wildlife management.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
General course of Zoology, ecology and sociology from bach; course on participative management (1 master); It is recommended to follow the whole module "wildlife" proposed (6 ects) in which this course joins.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Passive learning : lectures
Active learning : Work group, question and answer session, individuals study of case
Wildlife day : day of scientific communications : learning scientific communication
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Lectures : 12h Seminars : 6h Excursion (shared) : 3h
Recommended or required readings
During the course, different publications in french and english are distributed among the students.E-campus available.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination (with english): 25% : study case
Written examination (75%)
Questions of different nature
(multiple choice, restitution, conception...)
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Schedules could be adapted
ATTENTION : The presence in excursion and at the "wildlife day" is compulsory
Contacts
The modalities of contact will be defined in the first course. To join the secretarial department:fortrop.gembloux@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
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Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
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Items online
Basic supports
Student will find only basic support on-line. Several others supports will be given during the course.