A discussion-based course investigating the impacts humans have on biodiversity and measures used to mitigate them. Conservation biology is an interdisciplinary, value-laden, crisis-driven discipline. Topics include conservation law, ethics, and ecological economics; species extinction, rarity and their causes; population viability analyses and practices; designing, establishing, managing and restoring protected areas; and sustainable human development. A non-lab course.
Note: Conservation Biology may also be taught as a 4-credit course, which includes a project focused on using public community science data to support biodiversity conservation.