Designated sites, such as SACs, SPAs, National Parks and Nature reserves, require management plans to ensure the long-term conservation of their habitats and species and to address any negative impacts, pressures or threats. The aim of this module is to provide foundation skills in preparing conservation management plans for specific sites. It brings students through the various stages of preparing a plan: the legal background, basic site description and conservation objectives for the site, threats and pressures and conservation management techniques.
Introduction to conservation management planning
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The EU and national legislative background
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Models and theory of conservation management
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Field surveys and conservation status assessment of habitats and species
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Threats and pressures affecting the conservation status of habitats and species
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Nature conservation management techniques
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Report writing and presentation of plans
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Lectures, site visits (including an extended field trip to sites of high nature conservation value, e.g. in west of Ireland, during May or at another time during the main field season from late April to September), workshops, tutorials, case studies.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |