Description

Wildlife Conservation Technology combines the great outdoors with classroom learning. Students will learn about plant and animal ecology, environmental chemistry, map use and analysis, canoe safety, advanced wilderness and remote first aid, and wildlife management. They will spend many hours in field camps, where they will conduct habitat and night animal surveys, tour parks and wildlife rehabilitation centres, learn about wildlife and human interaction, and much more. Students will use their new skills during 160 hours of on the job training.

Students take part in songbird banding every year, contributing to songbird population and migration research on a regional and global scale.

They  may also combine this program with the Conservation Enforcement program to become a conservation enforcement officer, or use it as a stepping-stone to their Bachelor in Wildlife Conservation degree from UPEI.

The Wildlife Conservation Technology program is accredited by the North American Wildlife Technology Association. All students graduating from this program will receive North America-wide recognition as a Wildlife Technician and will receive a certificate from the accrediting body upon graduation.