All wildlife, terrestrial or aquatic, are undergoing significant impacts due to human activities. Humans shall take full responsibility for our behavior and it is important to understand what the nature and the wildlife dwelling in it need. This course will go through the issues of conservation across the globe, with a focus on the terrestrial ecosystems. As an applicational discipline, the course of Conservation Biology aims to help students understand that conservation is, in fact, an interdisciplinary subject, with humans playing a pivotal and indispensable part of it. Because of that, conservation is highly complex and could be an art of communication. Highly controversial issues are planned to be discussed over different activities, including group discussions, reports and presentations, as well as role-playing forums. Via this course, students shall learn that, the core of conservation lies on the communication between all parties that are involved, which almost always have conflicts of interests and strong disagreement (otherwise it won't be an issue). There is science and biology behind all conservation issues, but what may eventually solve the problem, is unlikely science, but the humans involved.

An Introduction to Conservation Biology
Richard B. Primack and Anna A. Sher (2016)