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Course description

Marine wildlife (marine mammals, reptiles, sharks and rays) is threatened by extinction and faces compounding pressures from human activities including over-exploitation, pollution, coastal development and climate change. There is an urgent need to understand and manage these threats. In this course, you will examine the major conservation issues facing threatened marine wildlife globally with a particular focus on Australia. You will learn how marine wildlife research, management and conservation is conducted using ecological, population and life history data, and how threats may be managed. Teaching will be conducted through a series of lectures, on-line SDL modules, specialist workshops with industry partners and researchers, field exercises and small group projects undertaken in one of the most diverse marine wildlife locations in Australia, the subtropical waters of the Moreton Bay region. This course will improve graduate employability through a work-integrated learning approach in which you will develop key field skills. These will include wildlife survey techniques including species ID, land-based tracking, aerial photogrammetry and acoustics, boat-based data collection, data analysis and wildlife necropsy.

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