ONLINE COURSE: Landscape Planning

[Emily Uhrig]

Looking to make landscape-level conservation plans? Check out this online course and learn from anywhere in the world with internet access! Register by August 24th to get the $75 early bird discount!

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Conservation planning happens at multiple scales from site-specific to transcontinental. While all conservation actions on the ground must eventually be applied at the site scale, the “landscape-scale” has been recommended for decades as a suitable scale for planning. The landscape scale brings ecological and socioeconomic context to inform decisions by understanding ecological connections and flows, population-level information about species, human stressors affecting sites but originating outside of them, and policy. This course will explore the key concepts and some tricky challenges of conducting conservation planning at the landscape scale, including how site-scale implementing actions can flow from a landscape-scale plan.  The course will draw on the Conservation Standards and other frameworks but will address the multi-disciplinary needs and tools of landscape planning, including spatial analyses and optimization, incorporating socioeconomic factors and community input, the importance of partners, and how to sustain what must be a dynamic effort into the future. Ten guest instructors (live or pre-recorded) from multiple organizations around the world will augment the course with their specific expertise and experience.

DATES:
September 22 - December 14, 2025

PRICE:
Starts at $275 students / $375 professionals (early bird ends Aug 24th)

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE:

https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/landscape-planning

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	Emily J. Uhrig, PhD Director of Education  Center for Wildlife Studies
Center for Wildlife Studies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose global mission is to provide accessible environmental education and promote wildlife conservation through science.