Free Online Course offered Future Learn: Nature and Wildlife Conservation

Future Learn Platform in conjunction with the University of Leeds is offering a free online course on Ecology and Wildlife Conservation. As learners will get to discover ecology and learn how we can protect wildlife to conserve our natural world.

Course Duration:

2 hours of study per week for two weeks.

This course is for:

1. The course is for anyone with a general interest in ecology and wildlife conservation but it will be particularly useful for students at high school who want to study conservation biology, zoology or biology at the university level.
2. Completing this course can help improve learners' university applications by broadening their understanding of wildlife conservation and developing their independent learning skills.
3. The course can also be used as a teachers’ classroom enrichment resource.

Course Topics:

1. The moral and economic arguments for nature conservation.
2. The impact of human activity on the natural environment.
3. Why the conservation of populations and communities are essential for human life.
4. How conservation biologists are helping to protect seabirds from offshore wind turbines.
5. The impact of climate change on coral reef ecosystems.
6. How the loss of coral can lead to ecosystem collapse.
7. How large-scale studies are used to understand environmental issues.
8. The impact of bee decline across the world.
9. How new technology is helping to conserve nature and biodiversity.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of the course, the learner will be able to:

1. Identify, through research, the key threats faced by seabirds, pollinators, and coral reefs.
2. Explore the impact of global environmental change on two key species and two key ecosystems.
3. Evaluate real data taken from a field study to investigate the conservation of a group of animals or plants.
4. Investigate the advanced techniques and technology which are used to study and conserve biodiversity by conservation scientists.

Course costs:

• The learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 4 weeks.
• Or upgrade this course for $44 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

• Or buy unlimited for $199 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in the learner’s own time within the year.

University of Leeds:

As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a center of excellence for teaching.

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