Why Study Wildlife Ecology and Management at UNE?
At UNE, you don’t have to travel for hours to see wildlife and study their ecology and management – you are there already! Our field research station ‘Newholme’ is only minutes from campus, with excellent lab facilities and accommodation, and it supports a good representative of New England’s wildlife. UNE is also central to some of the most spectacular scenery in northeastern New South Wales, and students get to experience coastal wetlands, escarpment rainforest, and a range of woodlands and forests during field trips to study the region’s wildlife. On-campus facilities include an extensive teaching museum of skulls and skins; a kangaroo enclosure; facilities to house and study live animals; wildlife autopsy room and modern wildlife laboratories. Research students can access specialist field gear including mammal traps of every imaginable size, mist-nets for catching birds and bats, harp traps and ANABATs for bat research, radio telemetry and animal GPS equipment, night-vision goggles
