If you want to increase your understanding and appreciation of conservation, either for your own benefit or to pass on to your clients, DOC offers field based and free online training courses.
Register for courses on controlling weeds and animal pests, plant identification, inventory and monitoring and principles of historic heritage.
This course teaches you about concessions, who needs one and why they are an important part of conservation.
This is a pre-requisite for other courses. It is made up of 3 modules. Find out more and start the course.
Learn how to do field observations, record data using different tools, and the principles behind them. Find out more and register to begin the course.
This course covers the differences between native and introduced animal species, how animals interact with each other, and why long-term predator control is vital. Find out more and register to begin the course.
This course helps you to identify the 10 New Zealand forest birds most commonly recorded during five minute bird counts.
This course teaches the principles of VHF radio and how to use the handheld and mobile radios DOC uses on its radio network.
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