Wildlands Conservation is actively involved in many different facets of environmental education, from designing formal programs for professionals, to educating the general public on relevant conservation issues. We work with various interest groups to design educational programs. We have experience in conducting surveys, focus groups and interviews to gather the data needed to tailor our programs to the target audience.
Wildlands
- Works with conservation groups in providing expert
biological opinion on land use issues throughout Florida.
- Implements
environmental education and outreach programs with local
communities and schools.
- Conducts studies focusing on public
knowledge, attitudes and behavior about wildlife and resource
management in Florida.
- Works with communities and local
governments to provide a linkage between the science community,
the public and the decision makers.
- Speaks to civic organizations,
school groups, university classes on topics that include,
but are not limited to: wildlife, long-term environmental
planning, land management, careers in conservation biology,
county conservation planning, and strategic areas for conservation.
Current Educational Initiatives
Gopher Tortoise
Authorized Agent Training Classes
Wildlands Conservation
has been certified by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) to, in collaboration with the Ashton Biodiversity
Research and Preservation Institute, to offer the training
courses required to become an Authorized Gopher Tortoise
Agent. We offer classes throughout the state and have conducted
over twenty classes to date. The
training courses are designed so that the student leaves
with a good understanding of gopher tortoise life history,
the new Gopher Tortoise Permitting Guidelines, and the new
Gopher Tortoise Management Plan. We also offer introductory
classes on gopher tortoise natural history and ecology.
Inroductory Gopher Tortoise Natural History Courses
This course is designed for students with little or no education or experience working in Florida Ecosystems and/or with Gopher tortoises. We have observed that individuals require a certain level of knowledge in order to successfully complete the Gopher Tortoise permitting certification courses, so we developed this 2 day course. It is designed to provide students with a solid background related to Florida Ecology (e.g. ecosystems, soils, species identification, etc) and gopher tortoise biology and natural history. Please Contact us for more information on Florida Ecology and Gopher Tortoise natural history courses.
Please
see our website for more information: www.gophertortoisetraining.org
Frog Listening Seminars
The Frogs are calling, are you listening? As part of our commitment to community education, Wildlands Conservation performs seminars that teach audiences simple, effective methods to identify local frogs and toads by their calls. In addition to frog and toad call identification, this seminar provides visual identification tips, and most importantly, discusses the importance of frogs and toads as biological indicators of environmental health. Wildlands Conservation performs these seminars to local groups in the Hillsborough River Watershed and can adapt the program for basic, intermediate, or advanced audiences. Basic seminars are around half an hour and intermediate or advanced seminars go into more detail and last about an hour or so. Guided walks, or “Outings”, to listen to frogs and toads in the wild will take place in concert with some of these presentations, as indicated below. Please see the schedule below to find a program near you. For more information, please email the associated contact/rsvp individual. For general information, please contact Lance Arvidson at larvidson@wildlandsconservation.org
Please Click here to download a PDF schedule of our Seminars
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