UF2484 Environmental Enrichment Course in wild animals

In the agricultural field, it is necessary to know the different fields of the care of wild animals, zoos and aquariums, within the professional area of livestock. Thus, this course is intended to provide the necessary knowledge for environmental enrichment in wild animals.

- Prepare and define environmental enrichment programs so that it improves animal welfare. - Describe enrichment programs from the zoological collection of a center by adjusting to each animal species. - Describe the quantity, type and location of enrichment elements according to social characteristics of species and that improve their performance. - Analyze material resources defined in enrichment programs. - Apply enrichment programs that improve animal management and well -being, following established procedures for each species. - List useful and enrichment elements by selecting the appropriate ones according to the behavioral characteristics of each species. - Point out possible deficiencies of the enrichment elements that may cause animals in animals. - Explain established protocols for the cleanliness and disinfection of enrichment elements that avoid health risks to animals. - Describe modifications in the use of enrichment programs that improve their quality and performance.

It develops its professional activity in small, medium and large companies, public or private and NGOs (non -governmental organizations), which are in care wild animals, developing their professional activity on their own, in zoological parks, recovery and rescue centers of fauna, aquariums and other zoological nuclei, depending on the upper responsible.

This training conforms to the training itinerary of the Formative Unit UF2484 Environmental enrichment in wild animals, certifying having overcome the different competence units included, and is aimed at the accreditation of the professional competences acquired through the work experience and the non -formal training, via which will choose to obtain the corresponding certificate of professionalism, through the respective calls that are published by the different calls. Autonomous communities, as well as the Ministry of Labor itself (Royal Decree 659/2023, of July 18, which develops the management of the professional training system and establishes a permanent procedure for the accreditation of professional competences acquired by work experience or non -formal training).

This course is aimed at the professionals of the agrarian world, specifically in the care of wild animals, zoos and aquariums, within the professional area of livestock, and all those interested in acquiring knowledge related to environmental enrichment in wild animals.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.