Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma in Land and Wildlife Management

The Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma in Land and Wildlife Management is for learners who are interested in developing the specific technical and professional skills and knowledge that will lead to meaningful employment in the land and wildlife management industry. Learners will explore a wide range of industry areas including countryside management, game and fisheries.

It gives you the opportunity to study a range of specialist technical practical skills and knowledge that build upon the core skills required to for working in the countryside
such as estate maintenance skills, population surveys, safe use of equipment and machinery with further areas of study such as land use and recreation and pest and predator control. You can then learn further specialist skills such as woodland habitat management, water quality, angling techniques, heathland habitat management, and the ecology of game species or greenwood crafts.

Compulsory topics include:

• Principles of health and safety
• Land based industry machinery operations
• Population surveys, ecology and conservation
• Countryside recreation
• Estate skills

Learners will also be able to choose additional optional topics, including:

• Principles of Physical and Biological Environmental Processes
• Woodland habitat management
• Pest and predator control
• Use of Firearms in the Environmental and Land based sector
• Water quality
• Fish Biology
• Farm Habitat Management
• The principles of grassland management
• Coastal Management
• Deer Management
• Heathland Habitat Management
• Urban Habitat Conservation
• Greenwood crafts
• Ecology of Gamebird Species
• Shooting sport in the UK
• Shoot Management
• Working Dogs
• Upland Game Management
• Gamebird production
• Fishery management
• Game Meat Hygiene

You can choose to specialise in:

• Countryside
  
• Game
  
• Fisheries

This course could lead to the following employment opportunities:

• Estate worker
  
• Countryside warden
  
• Volunteer manager
  
• Estate supervisor
  
• Boundary contractor
  
• Underkeeper
  
• Gamekeeper
  
• Stalker
  
• Shoot manager
  
• Fisheries worker
  
• Fish farm worker
  
• Fish feed manufacturing

For more information, read the Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma in Land and Wildlife Management Qualification Handbook

Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma in Land and Wildlife Management website