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Conservation and Wildlife Biology

Around the South Street campus of Murdoch University you might notice signs with a picture of a small rat-looking animal on them. This is a Quenda, a little marsupial, which lives on our campus. The signs are there to make sure you not only look out for them, but also look after them.

Our Conservation and Wildlife Biology degree aims to do something similar. One of the biggest problems confronting biologists world-wide is the rapidly increasing extinction rate of animal and plant species. The maintenance of a diverse complement of animal and plant species is essential for human well-being as we rely on a healthy environment for our basic requirements - food, medicines, fibres and building materials. We also rely on the ecosystem and its biodiversity for nutrient recycling, the degradation of wastes and pollutants, for the maintenance of the chemical composition of the atmosphere, and last, but not least, for our own recreation.

Spurred on by a community commitment to the conservation of wildlife and a shared concern for the importance of biodiversity, biological scientists at Murdoch University have initiated a degree in Conservation and Wildlife Biology.

This course will give you an understanding of the extent and consequences of biodiversity loss and the necessary training in ecosystem management, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology and conservation to provide objective scientific data and professional advice as resource managers and policy makers.