Palmerston North · Online course

Wildlife Conservation & Management in Palmerston North

Our Wildlife Conservation and Management course will teach you conservation techniques and sustainable wildlife management practises.

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Wildlife Conservation & Management in Palmerston North

What you'll learn

The course is the same online course wherever you study from. Its modules:

1. Module 1 – Wildlife Conservation
2. Module 2 – Wildlife Management

See the full Wildlife Conservation & Management course outline

Wildlife conservation and management around Palmerston North

The city council's Turitea Reserve shows conservation management at landscape scale. Working with the community, the council has placed thousands of traps across 40 square kilometres of the reserve, targeting possums, rats, stoats and feral cats while restoring native plants. In 2021 forty toutouwai (North Island robins) were translocated there from Bushy Park Tarapuruhi, with Rangitāne as kaitiaki partners and Massey University researchers handling capture and transmitters.

North-east of the city, Te Āpiti Manawatū Gorge Scenic Reserve is part of an ongoing DOC pest-control programme that includes toxins, which is why dogs are not allowed. Its tracks pass tawa and podocarp forest and the giant maidenhair fern, found only in the Manawatū. Closer to town, Wildbase Recovery in Victoria Esplanade shows the rehabilitation side of conservation, with around 40 per cent of its patients on DOC's rare and endangered list.

Wildlife Conservation & Management in Palmerston North: questions

Are there species reintroduction projects near Palmerston North?

Yes. In 2021 forty North Island robins were released into the council's 4,000-hectare Turitea Reserve after predator trapping and native planting. Rangitāne are project partners as kaitiaki, and Massey University researchers fitted the birds with transmitters.

What pest control happens in Te Āpiti Manawatū Gorge?

DOC says the reserve is part of an ongoing pest-control programme that includes toxins. Visitors should check the signage at track entrances for current toxin use.

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I have been conducting a 12 week course, the information provided has been easy to understand and extremely informative. If at any point i have run into difficulties, my tutor has been there to give assistance and advise me the best way to progress forward.

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