If your dream is to work outdoors with nature or animals; this course is best for you.

Get the skills you need in order to make right decisions, big and small.

Appropriate for anyone working with or want to work with, national parks, wilderness parks or wildlife parks. Park Management I provides you with practical skills and knowledge to manage the challenges experienced in a rewarding position that is more of a lifestyle than a job.

Students who study Park management A should continue on to Park management B and should also consider ‘value adding’ to their skills by undertaking further courses such as adventure tourism, eco tour management or tour guiding or wildlife management or zoo keeping.

Course Aims:

• Explain the importance of the interrelationships between various components of a natural environment within an ecosystem.
• Develop management strategies for soils within a natural ecosystem.
• Develop management strategies for plant maintenance practices, in nature parks.
• Design a nature park, or a section within a nature park.
• Develop management strategies for the control of weed problems in a nature park.
• Develop management strategies for the rehabilitation of degraded sites in a nature park.

There are 12 Lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Nature Parks
2. Basic Ecology
3. Soil Management in Nature Parks
4. Plant Maintenance
5. Design of Nature Parks I
6. Design of Nature Parks II
7. Weed Management in Nature Parks
8. Pest and Disease Management
9. Culture of Indigenous Plants
10. Tree Management in Nature Parks
11. Turf Care in Nature Parks
12. Rehabilitation Problems and Solutions