ABOUT THE COURSE

This course focuses on ecological monitoring, an essential aspect of protected area management. Following the 4 modules of this course will allow you to acquire essential foundations, in order to understand what ecological monitoring is and how it should be implemented. What is it for, what methods and techniques should be used, why, how to set them up? What statistical tools do you need to know to set up good monitoring? Finally, the course presents numerous examples of monitoring conducted in various environments and aimed at different species, allowing us to move from theory to practice.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• What is ecological monitoring? What is it for? How should it be set up?

• What methods and techniques should be used? Why? How to implement them?

• What statistical tools do you need to know in order to develop good monitoring?

• What are the particularities of monitoring according to environments and species? What rules should you follow?

THE INSTRUCTORS

Five instructors present this course: Geoffroy Mauvais (IUCN-Papaco), Béatrice Chataigner (IUCN-Papaco), Emmanuel HEMA (University of Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso), Inza Koné (University Félix Houphouët-Boigny) (UICN-Papaco), and Victor Panaretos (EPFL - Switzerland).