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Learn about animal behaviour and innovative conservation interventions

Wageningen University & Research
Professional Certificate inAnimal Behaviour in Science and Conservation
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What you will learn

  • Understand key concepts of animal behaviour: how animals learn, communicate, reproduce, and interact socially, shaped by natural selection.
  • Connect key behavioural concepts to relevant conservation challenges.
  • Recognize which behavioural traits can serve as threat and management indicators and use relevant resources to find species-specific information on conservation biology.
  • Identify successful examples of behaviour-based conservation management and design a basic species action plan, incorporating a behaviour-based conservation action.

  • Expert instruction
    2 skill-building courses
  • Self-paced
    Progress at your own speed
  • 3 months
    4 - 6 hours per week
  • Discounted price:$340.20 Original price:$378.00 USD
    For the full program experience

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WageningenX's Animal Behaviour in Science and Conservation Professional Certificate

Meet your instructors
from Wageningen University & Research (WageningenX)

Lysanne Snijders
Lysanne Snijders

Assistant Professor, Behavioural Ecology

Wageningen University & Research

Marc Naguib
Marc Naguib

Professor and Chair, Behavioural Ecology

Wageningen University & Research

James Savage
James Savage

Research Coordinator

Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology

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Discounted price:$340.20 Original price:$378.00 USD

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