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EWM 301
Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem
EWM 301 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is an ecological course introducing students in ecotourism and wildlife management to basic concepts of wildlife habitat. It provides training on ecological processes that highlight habitat management for sustainable wildlife and ecotourism management. As a practical course, the focus is on the identification, distribution and characterization of these components of the environment to impart useful skills on the students in order to manage biodiversity

EWM 303
Wildlife Ecology
EWM 303 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is one of the basic courses in Wildlife Management/Conservation that provides students with the required knowledge on the scope and meaning of Ecotourism and Wildlife generally. The course exposes students to knowledge of the wild animals with reference to their distribution, natural history, niche concept (habitat studies of wildlife communities in major aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of Nigeria), food and feeding habits of wildlife species, population, territorial defence, home range of the individual species populations, identification and classification of important African wildlife species, morphology, anatomy, physiology and the reproductive cycles of some selected species of important wild animals for “bush-meat” production, and the distribution, systematic ecology and economic value of the mammalian fauna of Tropical Africa.

EWM 305
Wildlife Production and Utilisation
EWM 305 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is an exploratory, first course in wildlife production and utilisation designed primarily for students in ecotourism and wildlife and allied disciplines. It is a course that provides hands-on training in the ranching and domestication of wildlife species particularly ungulates and rodents as well as processing of hides and skins for leather industries. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their self reliance and prepare them for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered include wildlife production systems; game ranching with emphasis on establishment of a ranch for ungulates; wildlife domestication; assessment of the characteristic features that make wildlife fit for various forms of utilisation; production of hides and skin.

EWM 307
Principles of Recreation and Ecotourism
EWM 307 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is basically designed primarily for students in ecotourism and wildlife management. However, it also meets the need of students in other tourism fields. The focus is to impart useful knowledge and skills on the students in order to enhance their understanding level in recreation development. Topics to be covered include origin and characteristics of tourism, ecotourism and recreation; park and recreation centre development system; planning resource use at larger-than-site scale and land assessment for recreation.

EWM 309
Wildlife Physiology Adaptation and Nutrition.
EWM 309 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Different shapes and adaptive physiological design in wild animals in relation to their environments. Natural environmental adaptation and physiological basis for migration, reproduction, feeding, temperature, pressure, lights and noise. The effects and limitations of temperature, photoperiod and the other environmental factors in the distribution and movement of animal’s comparative behavioural and physiological indices such as reproduction, changes in metabolites, hepatic and extra- hepatic enzymes of wild animals. Emphasis on selected individual animal species behavioural pattern in relation to body anatomy and physiology and in turn in relation to their food; feeding techniques and the habitat requirements and behaviours such as sociability and tolerance.

FAT 307
Pond construction and Maintenance
FAT 307 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is designed mainly for students in Fisheries and Aquaculture. The course provides applied training on the construction and maintenance of ponds. This course will impart valuable skill to the students in order to enhance their hands-on construction and maintenance of ponds. Topics to be covered include Site selection and survey. Design and construction of earthen production, breeding, nursery ponds. Fish pond accessories - spillway, monks, water inlet, monk boards and screen. Construction of other fish culture enclosures (concrete tanks, cages, pens, raceways). Construction of simple hatchery units, drainage facilities, flow-through system for fish production. Maintenance of ponds, channels and drainage facilities. Fish farm design and facilities.

FAT 313
Fish and Fishery products
FAT 313 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is designed mainly for students in Fisheries, Aquaculture and related disciplines. It provides knowledge on the exploitation of fishery resources in Nigeria. This course will impart valuable skill to the students in understanding types of Fishery Zones; various fishing methods, processing of fishery product and trade for the fishery product.

FWT 303
Forest Survey
FWT 303 | EWM | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is designed to trained students on how to carry out the survey of forest lands using some simple survey equipment such as compass, chain, poles, arrows, field books, optical instruments etc and simple construction surveying for rural applications. The students are practically exposed to various survey equipments and how to handle them. Students are also trained on how to produce the map of an area that has been surveyed, closing of errors in maps and computation of land areas from a map using different methods. Some of the topics to be covered include procedures in ground survey and ground survey instruments. Chain surveying (open and close traversing) and triangulation, Obstacles in chain survey, how to overcome them and the various sources of errors during survey exercise. Others are Compass survey: function, limitations and use during survey exercise and sources of errors, plotting of survey maps, plans and methods of area calculations, lettering and conventional signs, levelling and contours, plane tabling, the Theodolite: uses in tachiometry and Forest road alignment.

EWM 300
Wildlife Diseases and Parasites.
EWM 300 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Definition and explanation of Disease conditions in Wildlife Management. Description of Disease causing organisms (Pathogenic organisms). Effect of the Disease in Wildlife Management. Methods of diagnosing diseases in wild animals. Various means of body protection against pathogenic organisms; namely physical means of elimination of pathogenic organisms and physiological methods of their elimination from the body. Body immunities against diseases, mode of diseases transmission. Description and Discussion of specific wildlife diseases e.g. Rinderpest, Tripanosomiasis, Coccidiosis, Anthrax, Foot and Mouth Diseases, Fowl Pox, Brucellosis, Birdflu, Rabies, Identification, morphology, taxonomy, life cycle of wildlife parasites. The ecological effects of parasites, the wildlife habitats. Common bacteria fungal and viral diseases of wildlife and their control. Principle of Parasitology, Economic importance of diseases and parasites. Vectors and their classifications, Nature of vectors and their mode of actions. Life cycles of parasites and their mode of infection. Method of control of diseases and parasites. Habitat manipulaton for disease and parasite control and prevention

EWM 302
Wildlife Population Dynamics
EWM 302 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is the first course in population analysis designed primarily for students in ecotourism and wildlife discipline. As a practical course, the focus is to enable students acquire knowledge and skills on the dynamics of wildlife population and to and prepare them for field applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered include evaluation of wildlife resources in selected terrestrial environments by ground and aerial surveys. Censuring of wildlife population. Application of different sampling techniques in wildlife management. Population structure analysis with respect to size, age group, sex ratio, reproduction, survivorship and recruitment. Factors affecting the abundance and distribution of wildlife population such as immigration and emigration. Construction of life tables for wildlife population.

EWM 304
Field Trip
EWM 304 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

students will be expected to undergo a week training in Nigerian National Parks. students report will thereafter be evaluated.

EWM 306
Zoo and Museum Management Techniques
EWM 306 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is the first course in zoo and museum management techniques designed primarily for students in ecotourism and wildlife management. It provides the needed training in ex-situ conservation strategy. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields (Zoology, Ethology, Veterinary Sciences, Animal Sciences, etc). As a practical oriented course, the focus is to enhance self reliance capability of students produced in FUTA. Topics to be covered include planning and design of zoological gardens, capture and transportation of wild animals, health, handling and care of wild animals in captivity. Amusement infrastructures in zoos and nature interpretation. Feeding of animals, zoo sanitation, control of visitors. Collection, preservation and exhibition of wildanimal specimens in museums for educational and recreational purposes. Financial control and personnel management. Problems and prospects of zoo and museum management in Nigeria.

EWM 308
FOOD AND BREVERAGES MANAGEMENT
EWM 308 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course will expose students to classification, characteristics and properties of food commodities. Alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverage production; non-alcoholic beverages, juice extraction and planning; importance, types, quality and control, control standards; purchase; marketing, storage management techniques; preparation; dishing, service operators in different classes of restaurant and general sanitary system. Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Point (HACCP). Classes of Animal food, sources and deficiency. Balance diet, malnutrition and their effect on animal health.

EWM 310
Land-use Planning
EWM 310 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is an ecological course introducing students in ecotourism and wildlife management to basic concepts of land-use planning. It provides training on the selection of suitable land for wildlife and ecotourism management. As a practical course, the focus is on the identification of different land forms suitable for different uses and for sustainable management of biodiversity. Topics to be covered include Land-use history, science and policy, land characteristics and qualities: land capability and classification, land improvement, integrated land use in wildlife management. Land tenure system, land-use decree. Land valuation and taxation. Land appreciation and depreciation. Encroachment and illegal occupation of park lands. Land ownership and different methods of land transfer. Sustainable land development capacity; water shed protection and infrastructures, optimum use of marginal lands, environmental auditing and conflict resolution.

FWT 308
Forest Mensuration
FWT 308 | EWM | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Forest measurement is essential for taking management decision and planning. This course is designed to trained students on how to carry out some basic measurement in the forest, estimation of forest yield (basal area, volume and biomass estimation per unit area). Students are adequately taught the use of the various equipments for measurement in the forest. Such equipments are Girth/Diameter tape, Caliper, bark gauge, simple hypsometer, Haga altimeter, Spiegel relaskop, etc. The students are practically exposed to these equipments and how to handle them. Students are also trained on the management of forest resources for sustainable production with the knowledge of tree growth and increment. Some of the topics to be covered include fundamentals of resource inventory and mensuration, theory of tree measurements (diameter, height, back thickness, crown depth & width etc) and tree measurement’s Instruments, taper and form, tree and stand volume estimation methods, volume equations. Concepts of growth, increment of trees and stands. Stand table projection; volume tables and yeild tables, growth and yield equations/modelling, concept of stand structure, stand density and stocking, site quality assessment and site index and tree biomass estimation.