Learn about animals, birds of the NT

Recognise Fauna

Train Safe NT can come to your remote Aboriginal community and run a course for your work force.  Do you like bird and animal watching and want to learn how to identify them.  Learn the skills required to recognise animals, birds and mammals of the NT.  This course is great for ranger groups, its an introduction on how to survey and identify animals for conservation.  Are you a conservationist requiring fauna identification skills for the workplace?  

Recognise Fauna

This course is nationally recognised throughout Australia

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About the course

The course can be run anywhere in the NT, its taught by going out bush on a field trip and looking at a range of different habitats where we can observe, take photos, survey and collect data for the fauna recognition activities.  Doing this course can contribute to the completion of a certificate II in Conservation and land management.

What will I learn?

  • Conduct fauna surveys
  • Identify fauna of the NT
  • Animal classification
  • Animal taxonomy
  • Fauna characteristics
  • Family and genus characteristics
  • Common names
  • Animal classification
  • Legislation
  • Indigenous and non-indigenous animals in the NT
  • Duty of care
  • Employees obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act

The unit of competency is: AHCFAU201 Recognise fauna