Wildlife Health and Management

Wildlife Health and Management is an interdisciplinary specialist study intended to improve theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary for health protection and conservation of wildlife. This course is designed in a way to offer complete individuality to each attendee, giving them the possibility to shape their education in a most suitable way. Optimal number of MSc students is 6. Course is divided into core subjects and elective subjects provided within four directions (Game Health and Management; Large Carnivore Management; Reptile, Amphibian and Bird Health and Management; and Marine Mammal Conservation).

The full length of the master course is two semesters (60 ECTS points) and covers all core subjects and one direction. Additionally, attendees can choose an option of postgraduate diploma which consists of one course direction and one of the core subjects. Final option is to choose postgraduate certificate which consists of one or more subjects aimed to upgrade specific skills and earn ECTS points that are transferrable to further education. Cutting-edge topics include wildlife anesthesia, capture and translocation, reintroduction programs, conservation of species, fundamentals of wildlife diseases, habitat evaluation, problems at human-wildlife-livestock interface and health management of captive wildlife.

The course is open for veterinarians, biologists, foresters and other natural sciences according to the entry requirements described in the program. The course is based at Veterinary Faculty University of Zagreb with a long tradition in wildlife research and several national and European wildlife projects, which guarantees the conduction of practice-based specialist course.

Upon completion of this study programme, students will be able to:

  • actively participate in wildlife protection and species conservation programmes
  • know the basics of wildlife management
  • implement methods for capturing and transporting wildlife animals
  • identify, control and prevent wildlife diseases
  • identify, control and prevent zoonoses
  • participate in fundamental epidemiological research related to wildlife

Head: Assoc. Prof. Dean Konjević, Dipl. ECZM (WPH)
e-mail: dean.konjevic@vef.hr
ECTS: 60 ECTS points, 2 semesters
Fee: 4.000 eur per semester

Wildlife Health and Management
21. Apr
Great news!

Great news!

This postgraduate master course has entered the final stage of accreditation at the University of Zagreb. So we expect to be enrolling new students in the Fall of 2021. Stay tuned and watch the news on our webpage!  

prof. dr. sc. Dean Konjević

redoviti profesor, DECZM
Dean Konjević

prof. dr. sc. Tomislav Gomerčić

Redoviti profesor
Tomislav Gomerčić

prof. dr. sc. Josip Kusak

redoviti profesor u trajnom izboru
Josip Kusak

izv. prof. dr. sc. Magda Sindičić

izvanredna profesorica

prof. dr. sc. Martina Đuras

Predstojnica; redovita profesorica
Martina Đuras

prof. dr. sc. Zdravko Janicki

redoviti profesor u trajnom zvanju
Zdravko Janicki

prof. dr. sc. Nenad Turk

redoviti profesor, trajno zvanje
Nenad Turk

izv. prof. dr. sc. Danijela Horvatek Tomić

izvanredna profesorica
Danijela Horvatek Tomić

doc. dr. sc. Maja Lukač

docentica, DECZM

prof. dr. sc. Ivana Tlak Gajger

Redovita profesorica
Ivana Tlak Gajger

Obligatory courses

Monitoring of wildlife
Wildlife conservation
Captures and translocations
Fundamentals of wildlife diseases
Wildlife epidemiology
Diseases of wild mammals
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
Diseases of wild birds
Diseases of reptiles and amphibians
Diseases of managed and wild bees
Habitat evaluation
Ecotoxicology
Wildlife forensic medicine

Elective courses

Health management of captive birds, reptiles and amphibians
Conservation of birds, reptiles and amphibians
Health management in game farming
Game management
Approaches to conservation and management of large carnivores
The role of large carnivores and other keystone species in ecosystems
Marine mammal morphology and taxonomy
Monitoring and conservation of marine mammals

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