Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the importance and threats of wildlife conservation
• Define 'biodiversity'
• Describe genetic and ecosystem biodiversity
• Estimate the rate of species loss
• Analyze factors driving species towards extinction
• Explain the impacts of climate change on wildlife
• State the impacts of plastics on wildlife
• Describe how can we reduce the menace of plastics
• Discuss the impact of oil spills on wildlife
• State the cleanup operations for oil spills
• Summarize crisis and learnings using the Sariska Tiger Reserve as a case study