PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT
Migration
Share
What you will learn
Welcome to PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT !!
Course Description
Daily functions of a park manager: work load analysis and scheduling, personnel, physical planning, entrance and camping permits, maintenance tasks; Monitoring of wildlife populations, habitats, encroachments and poaching, and law enforcement patrols.
Course objectives: For students:
- To understand concepts of protected areas and protected area management
- To be able to understand the general, and day to day roles and responsibilities, of a park manager or protected area managers
- To understand how to deal with any amount of work in the park and of essence how to do work load analysis and scheduling, including work prioritization
- To understand how to deal with personnel in the park, their management, physical planning and management of entries into and use of protected areas and also maintenance of infrastructure and visitor facilities in protected areas
- To understand reasons for monitoring wildlife population, habitats and to understand how to deal with encroachment, poaching and how to enforce laws in protected areas
Expected outputs
By the end the course, the student is expected to:
- Know the concepts of protected areas and their management
- Understand the functions of protected area managers
- Understand work load analysis, scheduling and prioritization of work in protected areas
- Know how to manage protected area personnel, physical planning and maintenance work in protected areas
- Understand monitoring activities in protected areas and management of unauthorized entries and activities in protected areas
Teaching Methods
i) Lectures iii) Class discussion
ii) Practical
Contents
Weeks |
Topics |
Hours |
1-3
4
5
6
7-8
9
10
11
12 |
1. Introduction to protected Areas and Management
2. Daily functions of a Protected Area Manager
3. Work load analysis and scheduling in protected area management
4. Personnel management - Dealing with personnel discipline - Personnal appearance - Morale and team spirit - Staff welfare- Reward and incentives CAT1 5. Physical planning in protected area management
6. Entrance and Camping Permits · Camping Permits, its importance etc· Use of fees collected as entrance and camping·7. Maintenance Tasks in Protected Areas
·
8. Monitoring of Wildlife Population - aims of monitoring in wildlife protected areas 9. Encroachment and poaching in protected areas
CAT2 10. Law and enforcement patrols
- Main functions of patrols - Hints on organizing rangers/guards patrols
|
8 hrs
4 hrs
4 hrs
3 hrs
1hr
8 hrs
4 hrs
4 hrs
3 hrs
1 hr
4 hrs
|
Assessments
2 sit-in CATs + Practicals = 30 Marks
Main examination = 70 Marks
References
IUCN (1996) Planning and Management of Protected Areas in the tropics
Overview


