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Wildlife Conservation

Prof. Ankur Awadhiya · IIT Kanpur

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Lectures

Week 01 - Wild Life

  1. Lecture 01 - Preliminaries Video
  2. Lecture 02 - A closer look at Biodiversity Video
  3. Lecture 03 - Economics Valuation of Biodiversity Video
  4. Lecture 04 - Threats to Biodiversity Video

Week 02 - Monitoring Wild Animals

  1. -Lecture 05-Preliminaries Video
  2. Lecture 06-Basics of Sampling Video
  3. Lecture 07-Distance Sampling - I Video
  4. Lecture 08-Distance Sampling - II Video
  5. Lecture 09-Radio-telemetry Video
  6. Lecture 10-Behavioural monitoring Video

Week 03 - Monitoring and managing habitats

  1. Lecture 11 - What is a habitat Video
  2. Lecture 12 - Habitat degradation, loss, fragmentation and displacement. Video
  3. Lecture 13 - Reserve selection and design Video
  4. Lecture 14 - Habitat management and improvement Video

Week 04 - Management of wild life diseases

  1. Lecture 15: Some terminologies Video
  2. Lecture 16: Some common wildlife diseases Video
  3. Lecture 17: Principles of disease management Video

Week 05 - Capturing and restraining wild animals

  1. Lecture 18: Preliminaries Video
  2. Lecture 19: Mechanical capture Video
  3. Lecture 20: Chemical capture Video
  4. Lecture 21: Capture myopathy Video
  5. Lecture 22: Care of immobilised animal Video
  6. Lecture 23: Legal aspects of capture and restraint Video
  7. Lecture 24: Other topics in capture and restraint Video

Week 06 - Conservation genetics

  1. Lecture 25: Preliminaries and introduction to genetics Video
  2. Lecture 26: Population genetics Video
  3. Lecture 27: Chromosomal and genetic disorders, inbreeding Video
  4. Lecture 28: Population viability analysis Video
  5. Lecture 29: Reintroductions and outbreeding Video

Week 07 - Ex-situ conservation

  1. Lecture 30: Fundamentals Video
  2. Lecture 31: Zoos and their management Video
  3. Lecture 32: Botanical gardens Video
  4. Lecture 33: Other aspects: cryopreservation, seed banks, etc. Video

Week8 - Management of changes

  1. Lecture 34: Impacts of climate change Video
  2. Lecture 35: Plastics and biodiversity Video
  3. Lecture 36: Oil spills Video
  4. Lecture 37: Crisis and learnings: The Sariska case-study Video
  5. Lecture 38: Revision - I Video
  6. Lecture 39: Revision - II Video
  7. Lecture 40: Revision - III Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Biotechnology
Teacher
Prof. Ankur Awadhiya
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Biology
Source
NPTEL
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