This course provide participants with an overview of Thailand's culture and conservation challenges and then focuses on applying a set of well-developed field survey and conservation tools.

The course begins with a 2-day trip up Thailand's central waterway on a live-aboard barge designed for research and education. The group then travels to Thailand's premier conservation research site which will provide a comfortable home base for daily field activities and a launching point for a wilderness trip to more remote parts of western Thailand.

Many activities will revolve around and contribute to a long-term tiger conservation project of which UMN has been a principle partner. Specific activities include camera trapping, prey assessment methods and radio-telemetry approaches to the study of large mammals.