Certified Wildlife Biologist · USA · The Wildlife Society
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersManaging wildlife populations, habitats and protected areas, resolving human-wildlife conflict, enforcing wildlife law and running ecotourism. Animal health, capture drugs and wildlife disease are covered in the Veterinary track (wildlife-zoo-medicine).
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 10 (man-animal conflict) and Unit 11 (ecotourism); IFoS Forestry Paper II Section B (wildlife and legislation); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (wildlife management)
The Wildlife Society Certified Wildlife Biologist
Wildlife management principles, habitat manipulation, adaptive management, protected area planning and recovery planning.
How our questions for Certified Wildlife Biologist spread across the units of Wildlife Management & Protected Areas. Difficulty: 1 easy, 13 medium, 8 hard.
| Principles of wildlife management | 5 | |
| Captive breeding and reintroduction | 3 | |
| Endangered species recovery programmes | 3 | |
| Habitat management and manipulation | 2 | |
| Protected area planning and management plans | 2 | |
| Corridors and landscape connectivity | 2 | |
| Human-wildlife conflict: causes and mitigation | 2 | |
| Protected area categories (IUCN) and networks | 1 | |
| Wildlife crime, trade and enforcement (CITES) | 1 | |
| Ecotourism: principles, carrying capacity, community benefit | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Adaptive management treats management actions mainly as:
C. Experiments to learn from
Holling and Walters: act, monitor, adjust.
A limitation of management effectiveness scores is that they:
A. Rely partly on expert judgement
Scores partly reflect expert judgement, so interpret with care.
The SLOSS debate concerns whether to conserve:
A. Single large vs many small reserves
Single Large Or Several Small.
Studies of translocated 'problem' leopards in India found that they often:
D. Returned or caused new conflict
Translocation is rarely a solution.
Wildlife forensics laboratories mainly help enforcement by:
B. Identifying species from seized parts
Morphology and DNA link evidence to species and individuals.
A key requirement before any reintroduction under IUCN guidelines is:
D. Removing the cause of decline
Otherwise the new population will decline again.
The Limits of Acceptable Change framework was developed in 1985 by:
D. Stankey and colleagues
For the US Forest Service.
The US Endangered Species Act, which requires recovery plans for listed species, was passed in:
A. 1973
The US Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973.
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