. Currently, the relevant custodians of Uganda’s Wildlife: the Ministry of Trade, Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities and Uganda Wildlife Authority plus donor agencies have embarked on programmes to restore wild animal populations, ecosystem health and the tourism industry. These are very critical activities for the restoration of Uganda’s Wildlife Heritage and Tourism Industry.As the wild animal populations continues to dwindle, the human population growth has taken the reverse pattern of exponential growth putting pressure on the natural resources in order to meet its growing needs. The excessive human exploitation has resulted in the disruption of the ecological systems bringing:
This therefore calls for a double-pronged strategic approach to deal with these health related issues in both humans and wild animal populations. This is due to increased human –wildlife interactions leading to transmission of diseases between the two groups of animals. This is due to dwindling habitats to wild animals which has led to a need to intensively sustainably manage wild animals like in farms and ranches. Managing wild animals in intensive form requires acquiring proper skills for husbandry, handling, managing and controlling diseases associated with such production systems. There is also a need to promote a professionals gap with inter-disciplinary skills to link the ecosystems, animals and diseases in agricultural-wildlife interfaces and wild animal production systems. This therefore makes this proposal for training wildlife health and management personnel unique and vital to address these issues spelt above.To achieve most management objectives, there is need to enhance the existing capacity of Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA and other stakeholders in wild animals like veterinary extension staff, animal handlers, tourism sector, private sector, wildlife managers, researchers and ecologists. From previous wildlife policy workshops, UWA gave the mandate for both research, training of the Wild Animal Health professionals and managers to Makerere University, School of Veterinary Medicine (see Appendix I). It was against this background that a postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Health and management in 1998 was developed which was upgraded to a Master in Wildlife Health and Management in 2001. Eligibility:Applicants should posses a good Bachelor's degree from a recognised university or institution in the following disciplines: veterinary medicine, zoology, forestry,Agriculture and any other natural science.
Course Title | Course Code | Credit Units | Level |
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Wildlife Health and Diseases I | WHM 7102 | 3 | Graduate Level |
Research Methodology and Information | WHM 7105 | 3 | Graduate Level |
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Wildlife and Animal Resource Projects | WHM 7104 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Wildlife Health and Diseases II - Epidemiology and Prevention of Wildlife Diseases | WHM 7103 | 3 | Graduate Level |
Wildlife ecology, biology, behavior and animal resource utilisation concepts | WHM 7106 | 5 | Graduate Level |
Course Title | Course Code | Credit Units | Level |
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Guided field practicals | WHM 7213 | 4 | Graduate Level |
Nutrition and Feeding Technology in Aquaculture | WHM 7212 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Environmental Health in Aquaculture | WHM 7211 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Aquaculture Production Systems and Technology | WHM 7210 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Ecosystem Restoration | WHM 7209 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Animal Resource Utilisation Systems | WHM 7208 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Animal Resources Management | WHM 7207 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Health Management Techniques of Wildlife Systems | WHM 7206 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Environmental Health and Wildlife Production | WHM 7205 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Wildlife Production Systems and Technology | WHM 7204 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Extension and Community Conservation | WHM 7205 | 3 | Graduate Level |
Principles of Management | WHM 7202 | 2 | Graduate Level |
Data Analysis and Modelling | WHM 7201 | 3 | Graduate Level |
Course Title | Course Code | Credit Units | Level |
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Wildlife Production Economics and Value Addition | WHM 8101 | 4 | Graduate Level |
Advanced captive wild animal management | WHM 8202 | 4 | Graduate Level |
Capture and Translocation of Wild Animals | WHM 8103 | 4 | Graduate Level |
Advanced epidemiological applications in wildlife disease management | WHM 8104 | 4 | Graduate Level |
Rangeland and Protected Area Management | WHM 8105 | 4 | Graduate Level |