Biodiversity Conservation and Management in East Africa

This course is designed to provide students with information about tropical biology and to suggest ways of slowing down or reversing the rapid loss of biological diversity in East Africa. It evaluates the efforts and approaches being undertaken by governments, conservation organizations and communities in East Africa to improve the environment while trying to uplift the living standards of the people. It explores the social, cultural, economic and political context of the relationship between humans and the natural resources, to appreciate present and future biodiversity management particularly in East Africa.

Students will be exposed to East Africa's rich biological and physical diversity and the interplay between them and socio-economic and managerial factors. It will afford students an opportunity to evaluate the implications of actions, or lack thereof, being taken by different players at the local, national and regional levels in order to conserve and sustainable manage the region's vast biological resources.

Special note to SLU biology majors: Biology students in the Kenya Program can earn 1 or 1.5 units of Biology credit.

Students who take BIO242: Biodiversity Conservation and Management in East Africa and participate in an independent study project with significant biology content will receive 1.5 unit of biology credit. The Academic Director of the KSP will determine what constitutes significant biology content. This credit will not be major credit restricted (MCR). These students will receive 1 unit of credit for the Core Course and 1.5 biology credit.

Students who take BIO242 but do not do an independent study with significant biology content will receive 1 unit of biology credit that is MCR and 1.5 units for the Core Course.

 

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