Program Overview

Inventory and quality assurance of large predators

Inventory and quality assurance of large predators is an important part of game management.

Target group

The County Administrative Board's field staff (quality assurance) and the Sami villages' inventory coordinators.

Course content

• Tracking in the field
• Prevailing inventory rules and methods
• Species biology linked to the inventory
• GPS technology and field app

The course is primarily theoretical, with a short session in the immediate area outdoors. Lecturers on the course are staff from the Wildlife Damage Center, Grimsö Research Station, the National Museum of Natural History, Kungsörn Sweden and the county administrative board.

Courses in Rovbase

Documentation of predator inventories in the Rovbase database. After the course, you should be able to register traces, DNA samples and searched areas (loops), including acquiring data from GPS, as well as be able to search for data and present it on a map.

This course is always given in connection with basic training in quality assurance and inventory of large carnivores. Basic courses and advanced training in Rovbase can also be ordered separately.