Each year the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, in partnership with the Protected Areas Learning and Research Collaboration (PALRC), offers a training program on Adaptive Management for Conservation.
The course has attracted people working in protected areas from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. The training enables participants to understand the theory and practice of adaptive management through the internationally recognised Conservation Standards, with approaches that can be applied to a wide range of situations, with a focus on protected areas.
This training course is usually held each year in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, just inland of Sydney, and offered as a 5-day intensive learning experience (see video, below).
MOVING ONLINE IN 2020
We live in a time of unprecedented human impacts on the planet, with climate change, rising sea levels, uncontrollable wildfires, habitat loss, species extinctions, widespread social injustices, human population growth, new global pandemics, and political and economic drivers impacting nature faster than we can protect it.
Due to the current global pandemic restricting travel and imposing social distancing, the Institute is converting the field-based course into a 2-week fully-online course, accessible to people from around the world.
Dr. Rosalie Chapple, the Institute’s Education Program leader, welcomes this opportunity to adaptively manage the delivery of the course itself, in response to the urgent need to build capacity for conservation.
MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE 2020 COURSE
The online course offers participants a more flexible structure and timeline, delivered over 10 half-days (1-4pm AEST) from Monday 21st September to Friday 2nd October.
Offered at a reduced rate of $1200 + GST.
Enrolments are now open, closing in late August.