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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

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Requisites

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Learning outcomes

1.

Integrate the knowledge from conservation science with other disciplines, and articulate the consequences of interaction between them, to determine biodiversity values and to formulate a conservation management plan.

2.

Effectively synthesize and communicate your biological understanding of the major issues, approaches and solutions involved in the conservation of flora and fauna in both written and spoken forms.

3.

Present a rationale, grounded principally in science, and illustrate by reference to specific examples, that issues in conservation often require input from scientists, economists, sociologists and politicians, amongst others, for resolution.

4.

Critically evaluate conservation issues by identifying the central points, assessing the logic and factual accuracy of arguments, data and methodology, and being alert to both implicit and explicit bias.

5.

Appreciate the value of teamwork in solving conservation problems and demonstrate these skills by working effectively as part of a team.

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Additional information

Unit content:

Conservation is of concern to most biologists and an increasing number of non-scientists. Conservation issues are often highly emotive, but as a professional biologist you will be expected to disentangle the emotive issues from the scientific information available. This unit aims to provide you with a biological understanding of the major issues and approaches involved in conservation of flora and fauna, with a particular focus on the unique biota of Western Australia. The lectures cover topics such as biodiversity, population biology, extinction, major threats to the biota, habitat management and in-situ conservation, and ex situ conservation. 

Other notes:

As this is a 3 credit point unit, we expect you to spend on average ~10 hours per week for the total weeks of this teaching period (or 150 hours overall, or 50 hours per credit point) working on this unit. This includes the 4 hours of on campus activities scheduled in the timetable). We would expect that you go over the required reading material of the unit as part of this time commitment.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

This curriculum aligns with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Goal 14: Life below water
Goal 15: Life on land