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| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT |
Unit 1: Introduction to Wildlife
History of Wildlife Conservation
Values and Importance of Wildlife
Causes of Depletion of Wildlife in India
Wildlife Habitat Ecology and its Management
Biological and Ecological Basis of Wildlife Management
Unit 2: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Concepts-pertaining-to-wildlife Population, density, types of density, natality,
Concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing and their utility in wildlife habitat
management.
Unit 3: Wildlife Protected Area and Management
Sanctuaries
Concepts of Elephant Reserves (Project Elephant) and tiger reserves
Ramsar Sites Recent challenges of the management of Ramsar sites
Concept of Renewable Natural Resources and wildlife’s welfare factors
Practicals
1. Identification of flora (Common plant species associated with wildlife)
and fauna (Mammals, Birds, Herpetofauna, and Butterflies)
2. Demonstration and applicability of basic equipment needed for wildlife
studies (Compass, Range finder, GPS, Camera Traps).
3. Demonstrations of field study techniques: line transect and quadrate
sampling.
4. Importance of indirect evidences in wildlife survey and its identification
[Animal Footprints (Pug mark & hoof mark), Animal Droppings (Scat,
Dung, Pellet), Other animal signs, Antlers, Nests of birds]
Animal trail survey or trail monitoring, use of plaster of Paris for
wildlife survey (for the indirect survey).
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