WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT (Code: ZLG0600104)

 

Unit 1: Introduction to Wildlife

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT 

Concepts of wildlife, wildlife definition, wildlife conservation, history of

wildlife, and conservation ethics.

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. Conservation vs. preservation, Wildlife population

survey

Unit 2: Wildlife Ecology and Management

Concepts pertaining to wildlife population, density, types of density, natality,

mortality sex ratio and age structure, population growth patterns and concept of

carrying capacity; Habitat management of wildlife in a forested and aquatic

ecosystem, the definition of wildlife cover and cover characteristics.

Wildlife habitat succession and management; Restoration of degraded habitats,

Concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing and their utility in wildlife habitat

management.

Unit 3: Wildlife Protected Area and Management

Concepts of protected areas, wildlife protected areas in India; Protected area

network, National Parks, Sanctuaries, Man and Biosphere Reserve, Ecological

sensitive zones, Conservation reserves, Community reserves, Secret Groves.

Concepts of elephant and tiger reserves, Ramsar sites; Recent challenges of the

management of Tiger reserves and Ramsar sites. Concepts and management 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).