Training courses

PP001 Amazonian Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Course

(weeks 1, 3, 5 & 7)

This course is designed to give you an introduction to Amazonian wildlife, the survey techniques used to assess the diversity of various taxa and conservation management techniques that are producing results in Amazonia. The course consists of a series of lectures and aims to teach you the survey techniques and main species likely to be encountered in groups such as freshwater fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds, freshwater mammals, exploitation rates of large mammals and birds and primate population and behaviour studies. In addition the course covers a series of examples of conservation management in Amazonia.