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Environmental Science and Wildlife Management
Course objectives:
This course will enable the students to -
- Develop an understanding of the physical working of the Earth, the interactions between species and their environments.
- Appraise some of the important aspects viz. Natural resources and their Management, Environmental pollution, Wildlife conservation and interactions between the communities with the environment.
- Emphasis on the consequences of changing the environment on biodiversity.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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ZOL 224
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Environmental Science & Wildlife Management |
Students will – CO48: Develop an understanding of the environmental problems involving interaction of humans and natural systems at local or global level. CO49: Analyze the concept of Environment, the occurrence of biogeochemical cycles. CO50: Appraise the importance of Natural resources and their Management CO51: Evaluate the impact of Environmental pollution, Greenhouse effect, Ozone layer Depletion, El Nino and La Nina Effects CO52: Differentiate and evaluate wildlife conservation, strategies and government’s role in it.
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Approach in teaching: Guest Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, videos and PowerPoint presentations
Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical |
Class test Semester end examinations Quiz Assignments Presentation Open book test |
Population ecology
- Characteristics
- Population growth curves
- Factors affecting population growth
- Population regulation Biogeochemical cycles(C,O,N,P,S)
- Environmental Pollution –Air, Water, Soil, Noise and Radioactive. Green House Effect.
- Concept of Sustainable development
- Principles of conservation
- Water conservation- Rain water harvesting (Rural and Urban Methods
- Soil conservation
- Biological indicators and their role in environmental monitoring
Wildlife Management:
- Definition
- Zoogeography of India and world with reference to reptiles, birds and mammals
- Reasons for conservation and destruction of wildlife
- Value of wildlife in modern civilization Conservation
- Remote sensing in conservation of forest and wildlife
- Radio telemetry in wildlife management
- Habitat diversity- Genetic, Species and Community diversity. Habit analysis: Quadrants, Transects and Grids.
- Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries National Parks and Biosphere Reserves(State wise location, Definition and Differences)
- Wildlife (Protection Act) of1972
- IUCN and Red data book (Indian species at risk- Endangered, vulnerable, Threatened, Rare and Intermediate .
- CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)Appendices I &II
- Principles of Wildlife management; James, A. Bailey; John Wiley & sons
- Introduction to Instrumental analysis; Robert Braun: Mc –Graw hill, International eds.
- Environmental Science, Santra S.C., New Central Book Agency Pvt Ltd., Kolkata
- Environmental Science, Cunningham andSaigo
