Wildlife Health and Conservation

Course Description

Wildlife health is no longer an isolated discipline – there is widespread recognition of the One Health concept, which acknowledges the impacts the health of the environment, humans and domestic animal species can have on wildlife conservation. If you’re a graduate of biology, ecology or environmental science, you’ll be able to further your skillset with applied training in the veterinary aspects of wildlife health. This knowledge can be incorporated into conservation and One Health programs in your current role, or roles you are aspiring to.

You’ll learn the practical and theoretical research skills required to work in multidisciplinary teams addressing wildlife health and conservation issues, including disease risk analysis, disease surveillance methods and techniques, and pathology of wildlife.

Choose from special interest topics as your elective units, including a research project or placement, which may be in Australia or overseas. If you’re an international student, you’ll have the scope to pursue a particular interest or area of current activity in your home country.

4 reasons to study Master of Wildlife Health and Conservation at Murdoch

• Specialise your degree depending on your career goals by choosing from a wide range of electives.
• Network and improve your employability through placement programs with conservation partners nationally and internationally.
• Study flexibly, either face to face or completely online and external.
• Develop job-ready skills through real-world problem based learning addressing contemporary wildlife health issues.

Develop your skills

Build essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals. Topics you’ll cover include:

• wildlife pathology including necropsy
• how to design and analyse your own wildlife health surveillance program
• ethical capture, restraint and diagnostic sampling for wildlife health
• understanding how human health, environmental health and domestic animal health affect and are affected by conservation of wildlife
• disease risk analysis for wildlife translocations and reintroductions.

Your career

You’ll have a broad range of career opportunities with your expertise in wildlife health and disease, particularly in conservation. These include organisations involved in species conservation, recovery, translocation and reintroduction programs including conservation NGOs, government conservation and wildlife departments, zoos, and other not-for-profit wildlife agencies.

• Location

  • Perth Campus or external

• Mid-year Intake

  • Mid-year start available (Domestic students)
  • Mid-year start available (International students)

• Study Area(s)

  • Science

Course Structure

Each course has a number of credit points that must be completed for you to graduate. Find out what’s required to meet the credit points for this course.

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