Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

We all interact with each other and the wider environment that we live in. With such intertwined and complex systems how can we begin to understand how it all fits together and how our actions affect the natural world around us?

Delivery method: Online: With one In-person session at Denmark Farm Lampeter (31-05-2025).

Members of the Lepidoptera, butterflies, form an important part of many ecosystems and issues relating to the conservation of butterflies and their habitats often arise. 

Delivery Method: Online with one In-person session at Denmark Farm, Lampeter (24.05.2025).

In this course we will approach the identification of wildflowers by focusing on some key wildflower families, which have a selection of both edible and poisonous species.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.  

This module will cover the range of charismatic marine mammals that are commonly encountered in British waters (seals, dolphins and whales).

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

The module will outline the growth staging and identification of species of grasses, sedges and rushes.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

During this module we will discuss how bird populations are surveyed and monitored over a period of time, using various techniques.

Delivery method: Online: Scheduled Sessions(to include a virtural fieldtrip). 

With the ongoing biodiversity crisis, environmental protection and restoring biodiversity have become increasingly pressing issues. This module will provide an overview of science, theory and practical aspects of conservation biology. By exploring the interdisciplinary toolbox used by conservation biologists, will we critique ongoing conservation efforts by exploring real world case studies.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

This module introduces the standard method for butterfly monitoring, as used in the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme.