Level 3 Advanced Technical Extended Diploma Land and Wildlife Management

This qualification gives you the opportunity to learn about and build on the essentials of working within the countryside, such as estate skills, population surveys, safe use of equipment and machinery, land use and recreation and environmental processes. It is designed to provide you with a very wide range of specialist technical practical skills and detailed knowledge and understanding which will equip you to seek a diverse range of employment opportunities, or to further learning and training within the land and wildlife industries.

You will study ecological concepts and application, environmental interpretation and fresh water and wetland management, as well as further areas such as farm habitat management, heathland habitat management, coastal management, managing volunteers, outdoor adventure activities or overland expeditions.

Areas of Study

The following titles are the modules you will complete whist on programme:

Year 1

Principles of Health and Safety
Undertake and review work related experience in the land-based industries
Land based industry machinery operations
Population surveys, ecology and conservation
Countryside recreation
Undertake estate skills
Fresh water and Wetland Management
Pest and predator control
Farm Habitat
Undertake grassland habitat management

Year 2

Principles of physical and biological environmental processes
Woodland habitat management
Ecological Concepts and Application
Environmental interpretation in the Land-based sector
Undertake a specialist project in the land based sector
Coastal Management
Heathland Habitat Management
Urban Habitat Conservation
Aquatics Eco System