These courses are suitable for volunteers, funding recipients, territorial authority and regional council staff, or members of community groups and trusts. You can also complete one of DOC's free online courses.
To attend any of these courses you need to enrol with the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT). The courses are delivered and administered by NMIT in partnership with DOC.
Conservation field skills training programmes and short courses from NMIT.
20 x 20 Plots and Reconnaissance Descriptions field course
This course looks at methods that monitor forest structure and composition over time.
Five Minute Bird Count (5MBC) field course
The five-minute bird count technique monitors the abundance of forest birds over time.
Foliar Browse Index (FBI) field course
This course looks at the impacts of possums on forest health, using indicator species.