Program Overview

Certificate II in Conservation and Ecosystems Management

National Code

AHC21024

CRICOS Code

G

Course Duration

Project Based 28 Weeks
School Duration 38 Weeks

Course Units

15 Units

Course Information

Course Units

CORE UNITS

• AHCWHS202 Participate in work health and safety processes
• AHCWRK211 Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices

ELECTIVE UNITS

• AHCECR202 Maintain wildlife habitat refuges
• AHCECR203 Perform basic ecological restoration works
• AHCFAU202 Recognise fauna
• AHCOCM202 Observe and report plants or animals
• AHCLPW201 Operate a handheld GPS device
• AHCPCM204 Recognise plants
• AHCPMG201 Treat weeds
• AHCWRK211 Observe environmental work practices
• AHCCHM201 Apply chemicals under supervision Install tree protection devices
• AHCLSC210 Install tree protection devices
• NAT Participate in environmental assessment
• NAT Participate in using line and belt transects for environmental monitoring
• NAT Conduct quadrat sampling for environmental monitoring

This qualification provides the skills and knowledge required for work in a defined context and/or for further study in conservation and ecosystem management.

Career Outcomes

• Conservation worker – land management
• Conservation worker – parks and wildlife
• Earthworks conservation worker
• Ecosystem restoration worker
• Indigenous land management worker
• Parks and wildlife services worker

By studying this course, students will be enabled to select and develop basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge in conservation and ecosystem management for Indigenous land management, lands, parks and wildlife services and the restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems.