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WILD4003: Taronga Conservation Project: Applied Biology
2025 unit information
With human population expansion and urbanisation leading to deforestation and overexploitation of resources, the natural landscape continues to change. Australia is a continent of extremes, from long-term drought and unprecedented bushfires to storms and floods. How does wildlife on the Australian continent cope with these devastating extremes? Across Australia, individuals and organisations work hard to conserve species and remediate habitats. Now has never been a more important time to be studying wildlife conservation. Taronga advanced coursework projects serve as a capstone experience for students in the Taronga Wildlife Conservation Stream. These projects are the culmination of four years of theoretical and practical learnings. Students in this unit will focus on the scientific approach to wildlife conservation management in real-life settings. You will gain skills in writing grant applications and the permits needed to investigate species and habitats. You will work in groups, together with academic advisors from Taronga Zoo and the University, to select, research and design a research question based on a relevant contemporary wildlife conservation issue. You will draw on your understandings throughout the degree to propose wildlife conservation solutions in the contemporary 21st century, communicating your strategy and findings through written, multi-media and oral presentation assessments. In this unit you will build your personal Wildlife Conservation Portfolio. This portfolio provides documented evidence of your skills in wildlife conservation, illustrating highly desirable competencies to show potential employers. By the end of this unit students will understand the evidence-based decision making that helps support and inform wildlife conservation management.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Life and Environmental Sciences Academic Operations |
| Credit points | 12 |
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Prerequisites:
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144 credit points of units including WILD3001 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Work collaboratively to find solutions to wildlife conservation challenges.
- LO2. Source and critically evaluate research and evidence from diverse range of sources and identify knowledge gaps in wildlife conservation challenges.
- LO3. Develop research questions within the applied experimental contexts of wildlife conservation and wildlife management.
- LO4. Apply wildlife conservation principles to propose wildlife conservation solutions.
- LO5. Communicate in written and oral methods to target audiences.
- LO6. Critically reflect on your approach, contributions and influence to solving problems in a group environment
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Semester 1 2025
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Supervision | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Additional advice
Students undertaking the BSc/BAdvStudies (Taronga Wildlife Conservation) degree must take both of these advanced coursework project units unless they are undertaking Honours Research. Some of this unit will be taught by and at Taronga.
