WILM403 Practice of Wildlife Management

Note: This information is for 2013, and may have been updated since the Guide to Enrolment was printed.

Prescription

A research placement with a wildlife research or management organisation. A report and diary must be submitted for assessment.

Schedule C: Science

Limited to: PGDipWLM

Course information

This paper is designed for those wanting frontline wildlife management and research experience. You will have five weeks’ research work experience within some wildlife management organisation. The types of projects that could be undertaken vary widely within the spectrum of wildlife management activities.

Ideally you will be involved in semi-independent research entailing project design, data collection and analysis, and write-up. Your employer also gets a chance to look at your talents and sometimes this has led to them hiring the student. You could be based anywhere in NZ, or overseas for that matter.

This course is only available for Postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Management students. Your grade will be based on a written report, a diary, and an evaluation by your host supervisor.

Some recent WILM 403 reports include:

• Monitoring the Stewart Island robin after translocation to Acker’s Point and Iona Island - Brooke McIntyre
• Evaluating the effectiveness of the Murchison Mountains stoat trapping programme - Danilo Hegg
• Abundance of Banded Dotterels in the Upper Ahuriri River: A comparison of methods - Megan Henderson
• Supplementary feeding of Kakapo on Codfish Island - Kahori Nakagawa
• A pilot study of thermal microhabitat opportunities under vegetation for grand skinks: A case for habitat restoration, Macraes Flat, Otago, New Zealand - Richard Struthers
• Interspecific interaction and habitat use by Australian Magpies on sheep and beef farms, South Island, New Zealand - Marcia Green
• Long-tailed bat monitoring in Pureora Forest Park 1999-2005: Determining trends in activity using line transects - Jess Wallace

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