NOC:WildLife Conservation, IIT Kanpur
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NOC:WildLife Conservation, IIT Kanpur at NPTEL Overview
Duration | 8 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
NOC:WildLife Conservation, IIT Kanpur at NPTEL Highlights
- Earn a certificate
NOC:WildLife Conservation, IIT Kanpur at NPTEL Course details
- For officers and staff of Forest departments
- For students of Forestry, Wildlife conservation and allied disciplines,
- For policy makers
- In this course, we shall discuss the several facets of wildlife conservation, including its importance and the threats being faced, and also how they are being managed in the field
- Learner shall explore how to capture wild animals, how to treat them when needed, how to manage their habitats and their populations, and so on
- Learner will use the case study approach with real-life examples from the field to get a better understanding of this field and its applications
NOC:WildLife Conservation, IIT Kanpur at NPTEL Curriculum
Week 01 - Wild Life
Lecture 01 - Preliminaries
Lecture 02 - A closer look at Biodiversity
Lecture 03 - Economics Valuation of Biodiversity
Lecture 04 - Threats to Biodiversity
Week 02 - Monitoring Wild Animals
Lecture 05-Preliminaries
Lecture 06-Basics of Sampling
Lecture 07-Distance Sampling - I
Lecture 08-Distance Sampling - II
Lecture 09-Radio-telemetry
Lecture 10-Behavioural monitoring
Week 03 - Monitoring and managing habitats
Lecture 11 - What is a habitat
Lecture 12 - Habitat degradation, loss, fragmentation and displacement.
Lecture 13 - Reserve selection and design
Lecture 14 - Habitat management and improvement
Week 04 - Management of wild life diseases
Lecture 15: Some terminologies
Lecture 16: Some common wildlife diseases
Lecture 17: Principles of disease management
Week 05 - Capturing and restraining wild animals
Lecture 18: Preliminaries
Lecture 19: Mechanical capture
Lecture 20: Chemical capture
Lecture 21: Capture myopathy
Lecture 22: Care of immobilised animal
Lecture 23: Legal aspects of capture and restraint
Lecture 24: Other topics in capture and restraint
Week 06 - Conservation genetics
Lecture 25: Preliminaries and introduction to genetics
Lecture 26: Population genetics
Lecture 27: Chromosomal and genetic disorders, inbreeding
Lecture 28: Population viability analysis
Lecture 29: Reintroductions and outbreeding
Week 07 - Ex-situ conservation
Lecture 30: Fundamentals
Lecture 31: Zoos and their management
Lecture 32: Botanical gardens
Lecture 33: Other aspects: cryopreservation, seed banks, etc.
Week8 - Management of changes
Lecture 34: Impacts of climate change
Lecture 35: Plastics and biodiversity
Lecture 36: Oil spills
Lecture 37: Crisis and learnings: The Sariska case-study
Lecture 38: Revision - I
Lecture 39: Revision - II
Lecture 40: Revision - III
NOC:WildLife Conservation, IIT Kanpur at NPTEL Entry Requirements
- 10+2 with science
- Not mentioned
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