Introduction:
Dr. Oluseun Adesola AKINSOROTAN
Coordinator
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The Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management is a group of faculty members who are known for their expertise in teaching and research. Students’ examination, off campus/industrial training and seminars are jointly handled by the faculty members, adjunct and affiliated faculty. Our students are provided with quality instruction and guidance by our dedicated academic staff and administrators, which makes us fortunate
Since inception, the Department has been committed to excellence in teaching, mentoring and scholarly research. our program has produced many alumni who have gone on to become researchers, scientists, policy makers, and academic leaders in and outside Nigeria, and we are proud of them.
The Department has a close relationship with the National Park Services of Nigeria (NPS) whose primary aim is to promote and regulate the use of the Federal Protected Areas, which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life for the present and future generations. NPS is also committed to programs that focus on research, instruction, and outreach regarding the management, conservation and preservation.
The Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management is in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management and part of the College of Agriculture at the Osun State University, Osogbo. It was established in the year 2007. At the undergraduate level, the Department offers a degree in Bachelor’s in Wildlife Management. This degree provides students with strong science and research-based instruction to prepare them for careers as natural resource managers in public, private and non-profit sectors.
The graduate programs at the Department include PGD, MS and PhD degrees in Wildlife Management. Each program has its own area of specialization and faculty members that supervises and serve as advisors.
Kindly see the Departmental Handbook for explicit information with respect to National
University Commission’s (NUC’s) recommended minimum benchmark for the award of Bachelor of Wildlife Management in Nigerian Universities, description, content, unit and other necessary requirements of each of the courses. In addition to this, the handbook provides information on the admission requirements, the course system, Grade Point Average (GPA) system, methods for the evaluation of each student’s academic performance as well as, the rules and regulations governing registration, examination and general conduct of students. Thus, the handbook is an indispensable tool which every student should have and be familiar with the contents.
I assure every student in the Department that the Department is poise to provide and maintain high standard of training such that our undergraduate and graduate students could complete favorable with their counterparts anywhere in the world. Because it will position our graduates for scholarships, competitive jobs and relevant entrepreneurial ventures. I therefore encourage you our dear students to make good success of this opportunity; maintain consistent attitude of hard work at your studies and all assignments starting from the first day in this University. You are advised to carefully study this Handbook and make it your companion, note all the information concerning the various requirements for programme.
Location:
The Department is in the College of Agriculture located in Ejigbo. The town is located along the border between Oyo and Osun State. The College currently have two Faculties and six (6) Departments with students admitted into their programmes.
Brief History of the Department
The Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism started in 2007 as the Department of Wildlife and Environmental Management and the academic programme was B. Wildlife Management. The programme was one of the inception programmes of the University. The Department was later changed in 2011 to the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Management to run two programmes viz: Fisheries and Aquaculture and B. Wildlife Management.
As in other courses in the College, Wildlife and Ecotourism Management commenced her academic courses with the admission of the first set of undergraduate students in 2007/2008 academic session on Wednesday 8th October, 2008, and graduated them in 2011/2012 Academic session on 27th June, 2012. Since its inception the Department has produced graduates who are employed in relevant sectors of the economy and a few have gone for further studies.
There are well equipped functional laboratories some of which are shared with other
Departments in the College while others are specific to the academic programmes of the Department. The laboratories are well equipped to cope with the teaching of students and for the use of academic staff for research purposes. The Department is endowed with modern equipment in Wildlife Ecology and Monitoring and relevant facilities such as apiary, aviary, snailery and grasscutter rearing facilities and a zoological garden which is used with the Department Zoology.
In the past, Classrooms and Lecture rooms are shared with other Departments in the College. At present, there are adequate Classrooms and Lecture rooms for the Department in the newly furnished building for the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management.
The students registered in the Department offer same courses at the 100 level as their counterparts in basic sciences, at 200 level they offer same courses with related Departments within the College. While in 300 they concentrate on courses relevant to Wildlife and ecotourism management. At 400 level students take in situ practical year courses under the Student Work Experience Programmes during the Harmattan Semester after which they proceed a six-months Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) ex situ in relevant agencies and establishment during the Rain Semester as part of their graduation requirement.
The Department is in close relationships with the Nigerian Conservation Society (NCF), National Parks and the Wildlife Society of Nigeria (WISON).
Academic Programmes
Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management runs B.Wildlife Management programme
The Department offers a B. Wildlife programme at the undergraduate level. The Bachelor’s degree programme covers different areas which include:
- Wildlife ecology management
- Range management
- Wildlife nutrition and production
- Ecotourism management
Vision of the Department
To produce graduates who are trained to appreciate nature through wildlife resources and in the management of the resources and their environment for sustainability to ensure secured livelihood for those who depend on it in various forms. The Department aims at producing
graduate through high quality teaching, learning and research experience scholars, researchers and professionals in academics, capable of having impact on their environment and could exploit the potentials in the wildlife resources for their economic benefits.
Mission of the College
Our mission is to create a unique Department committed to the pursuit of academic innovation, skill-based training in Natural Resources Management, a tradition of excellence in teaching, research and community service and to produce experts in Wildlife and Ecotourism Management that are relevant, highly employable and can create employment in the society.
Physical Development
The Department and the school management continue to provide adequate facilities and enabling environment for the training of the students in the various aspects of the B.Wildlife programme. This includes establishment of the wildlife domestication unit (grasscutter, apiary, aviary and snailry). The desire to have a sustainable source of food for the animals in the domestication unit has led to the establishment a food system for these animals combining it with butterfly garden to conserve some of the declining charismatic pollinators (bees and butterflies) that potentially contributes to 15 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Work is on-going and the desire to introduce the newly establish orchard where only indigenous fruit trees are planted not to only improve the health of the ecosystem but also the human wellbeing to the neighbouring communities in no distant time in on the high tempo
Research Activities
Basic and applied research in wildlife and biodiversity conservation is embarked upon by members of academic staff in the department. Areas of research covered include wildlife ecology, nutrition, entomology, ornithology, social aspect of biodiversity conservation, ecotourism etc.
Research facilities being developed include:
Teaching and research domestication unit
On station demonstration
Teaching and research laboratory
Teaching and research laboratory complex
Information and communication technology (ICT) College and Departmental libraries
Grants and Awards:
Adewumi A A 2014. TETFund Research Grant intervention programme. Grant No: UNIOSUN/TETFund/14/0021. Preliminary Evaluation of Ostrich Husbandry in Osun State
Community Empowerment Service Project:
The Department in collaboration with the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management engaged in tree planting outreach to neighbouring hospitals, secondary schools and the local Government Secretariat.
Welcome Address/Introduction of HOD of the Department
Dr. Munir Karounwi Adegoke WAHAB
Ag.HOD
I welcome you to the Department of Forest Resources Management, which is strategically positioned in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management, College of Agriculture, to promote sustainable production and utilisation of forest resources, as environmental friendly substitutes to non-renewable natural resources. The Department adopts an accommodating approach to ensuring integrity in teaching and impartation of knowledge to students and staff through effective teaching, seminars and relevant field experiences; geared towards producing forestry professionals who are able to engage the changing world in activities geared towards sustainable forest production and utilization.
The Department has evolved from the sustained yield concept of forest management to a broader scope that focuses on sustainable management of the entirety of ecosystem services and to this end, the Department has developed an underlying philosophy which prepares world-class graduates for the challenges that face the environment and human dependence on it. This is to bridge the gap for trained capacity in the field of forest production and its utilisation while creating pragmatic and sustained solutions to the problems encountered in food, fuel and fibre production; deforestation and forest degradation; loss of tree genetic diversity, forest and climate change as well as poor data management and conservation.
The Department of Forest Resources Management operates in an atmosphere that encourages free flow of knowledge among students and members of staff. The intention of this practice is to in turn create excellent relationship with professional colleagues outside the department over the years.
Location of the Department
The Department is one of the departments in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management, in the College of Agriculture which is located in Ejigbo town of Osun State. Ejigbo, is situated along the border between Oyo and Osun States. The Department is in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management building.
Brief History of the Department
The Department of Forest Resources Management, Osun State University Nigeria, was established in the year 2019. The stated aim of the Department was to provide professional personnel qualified in forestry and allied land management.
Mission of the Department
- To produce competent graduates of forest science who are able to cope in a competitive world
- To assist in wealth creation, through judicious use of forest produce and allied natural resources
- To continue to engage the changing world in activities geared towards sustainable forest production and utilisation
- To serve as bridge for forestry stakeholders through robust advocacy for broad based management of forests as well as forest products utilisation
Vision of the Department
To build a department that will be a Centre of excellence for training and research in forest science and environmental management in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Academic Programme
- Forestry Management
Physical Development
The Directorate of works and physical development continues to supervise the on-going physical development projects which include approach road construction, health centre, classroom complex, ICT centre, library building, laboratories complex, sports arena and facilities and farm structures. A feed mill factory, standard fisheries and aquaculture complex.
There are three functional laboratories in the College that serve the academic programmes of the Department. The laboratories are well equipped to cope with the teaching of students and for the use by the academic staff for research purposes. Well-equipped class rooms and lecture rooms are also available for the smooth running of academic programmes in the department, faculty and the college as a whole.
The desire to create a model department of Forest Resources Management in the college of agriculture is the driving tempo for the physical development in the department, faculty and the college.
Research Activities
The global population continues to seek environmentally friendly solutions to issues pertaining to forest resources utilisation, with a special focus on sustainability of the renewable natural resources found in forests. The Department of Forest Management has evolved from the sustained yield concept to a broader scope that focuses on sustainable management of both tangible and intangible forest products. To this end, the Department has developed an underlying philosophy which prepares world-class graduates for the challenges that face the environment and human dependence on it. The aim is to bridge the gap for trained capacity in the field of forest production and its utilisation while creating pragmatic and sustained solutions to the problems encountered in food, fuel and fibre production; deforestation and forest degradation; loss of tree genetic diversity, forest and climate change; poor data management and conservation. The proposed curriculum focuses on sustainable forest resources management, maintenance of ecological integrity and integrated approaches to forest resources utilisation, with the aim of producing versatile graduates with sound knowledge and entrepreneurial skills in resource utilisation without exceeding the carrying capacity of the environment.
Journals:
- Journal of Forestry Association of Nigeria
- Journal of agriculture, forestry and fisheries
- Journal of forestry, environment and sustainable development
- Journal of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife Environment
- Journal of Forestry, Environment and Sustainable Development Nigerian Journal of Forestry
- Online Journals
- Ecological Society of Nigeria
- UNIOSUN Journal of Agriculture and Renewable Resources Renewable Resources Journal
Community Empowerment Service Project:
The Department has evolved from the sustained yield concept of forest management to a broader scope that focuses on sustainable management of the entirety of ecosystem services and to this end, the Department has developed an underlying philosophy which prepares world-class graduates for the challenges that face the environment and human dependence on it. This is to bridge the gap for trained capacity in the field of forest production and its utilisation while creating pragmatic and sustained solutions to the problems encountered in food, fuel and fibre production; deforestation and forest degradation; loss of tree genetic diversity, forest and climate change as well as poor data management and conservation. The department engages in sensitizing the young foresters on the better way to produce seedlings and economic trees for commercial purposes.
Welcome Address/Introduction of HoD of the Department
Coordinator
The essence of running the undergraduate (B. Fisheries and Aquaculture) and post graduate (PGD, MFA, M.Sc., and Ph.D.) programmes in fisheries and aquaculture is to develop graduates with all round knowledge in theory and practice in the arts and science of ordering and managing aquatic resources for sustainable productivity and uses based on the detailed understanding and analysis of global and societal needs, goals and objectives. These are within the socio-economic and physical environmental frameworks. These graduates will be exposed to the rudiments of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources management to meet our societal changing needs.
The Bachelor of Fisheries and Aquaculture Programme is conceived to produce graduates to serve as middle level officers. The programme is developed to encourage intellectual growth with relevant practical and professional competence required for scientific resolution of social, economics, biological and environmental issues relating to aquatic and associated resources in this contemporary time with the aim of ensuring optimum sustainability management and productivity of the resources
Location of the Department
The Department is one of the departments in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management, in the College of Agriculture which is located in Ejigbo town of Osun State. Ejigbo, is situated along the border between Oyo and Osun States. The Department is in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management building.
Brief History of the Department
The Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management started as a unit that offer degree in Fisheries and Aquaculture as a programme in the Department of Animal Science and Fisheries at inception. In 2011, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife management was created to offer two programmes respectively viz: Fisheries and Aquaculture and Wildlife Management programmes. In 2019, the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management was created with three Departments under it and the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management was one of them.
The first set of students were admitted on the 8th October, 2007 and graduated with Bachelor of Fisheries and Aquaculture on 27th June, 2012. The Department has since, been producing highly qualified graduates who are employed in different relevant works of life, while some are on further studies. The Department offers programme leading to the award of Bachelor’s degree in Fisheries and Aquaculture, as well as post graduate programmes (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in the different areas of specialisation of Fisheries and Aquaculture. The Department has so far graduated two (2) different sets of M.Sc. Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management students, while the Ph.D. candidates are still running their programme.
The Department has been a leading element in advancing frontiers in research and knowledge within Nigeria. For the past few years, the members of the academic staff in the Department have won several grants from reputable organizations which include the institutional based research (IBR), Tet-Fund and National Research Fund (NRF) grants.
The Department has cordial relationship with Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Association of Nigerian Scientists (ANIFS), World Aquaculture Society (WAS), West African Region of World Aquaculture Society African Chapter, Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of
Nigeria (NOAN), and National Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture in Africa (KCOA).
The Department is endowed with sophisticated equipment in fish processing, fish breeding, nutrition and production, water quality monitoring test kits, earthen ponds, concrete tanks and other fish holding receptacles’ design, construction and management, fish hatchery design and construction, production of insects such as maggots, grasshoppers, black soldier fly larvae etc. to feed fish, aquaria design and production, ornamental fish culture and production, integrated fish production.
The students registered in the Department offer same courses at the 100 level as their counterparts in basic sciences, at 200 level they offer same courses with related Departments within the College, while in 300 level, they concentrate on courses relevant to Fisheries and Aquatic Resources management. At 400 level, students take in situ practical year courses under the Student Work Experience Programmes during the Harmattan Semester after which they proceed on a six-month Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) ex situ in relevant agencies and establishment during the Rain Semester as part of their graduation requirement.
The Department operates academic curricular that are tailored along the stipulations contained in the National Universities Commission (NUC) Benchmark for Minimum Academic Standards. The academic programmes in fisheries and aquatic resources management, are being run to produce graduates to serve as middle (graduates) and upper (postgraduates) level officers. The programme is developed to encourage intellectual growth with relevant practical and professional competence required for scientific resolution of social, economics, biological and environmental issues relating to aquatic and associated resources in this contemporary time with the aim of ensuring optimum sustainability management and productivity of the resources.
The Department therefore aims at:
- Producing skilled middle and upper level officers who could engage in fisheries and aquaculture activities, provide the needed manpower and create employment opportunities.
- Provides opportunities for the interested candidates to develop effective skill and career to encourage better contributions and advance cutting edge of knowledge in aquaculture and fisheries management.
- Enable the upcoming generations of renewable natural resources scientists to acquire training in critical and objective analysis of issues with balanced judgments which will give them a good standing in research, culture and the management of fisheries, aquatic and associated resources
Mission of the Department
Our mission is to create a unique academic centre of excellence providing high quality teaching and learning experiences in Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management that will engender the production of entrepreneurial graduates in this discipline, capable of impacting positively on their environment while being globally competitive. The programmes aim at development of creative, innovative and self-reliant human resources in form of graduates with entrepreneurial culture, good communication skills, computer literacy and problem-solving abilities who will transform the society for the better.
Vision of the Department
To be an exemplary Department of excellence in providing high quality teaching, learning and research experience in the areas of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management that will lead to the production of scholars, researchers and professionals in academics, capable of having impact on their environment while being globally competitive.
Academic Programme
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- M.Sc. Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Options in: Fisheries Management Aquaculture
- Ph.D. Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Options in: Fisheries Management Aquaculture
Physical Development
The Directorate of works and physical development continues to supervise the on-going physical development projects which include approach road construction, health centre, classroom complex, ICT centre, library building, laboratories complex, sports arena and facilities and farm structures. A feed mill factory, standard fisheries and aquaculture complex.
There are three functional laboratories in the College that serve the academic programmes of the Department. The laboratories are well equipped to cope with the teaching of students and for the use by the academic staff for research purposes. Well-equipped class rooms and lecture rooms are also available for the smooth running of academic programmes in the department, faculty and the college as a whole.
The desire to create a model department of fisheries and aquatic resources management in the college of agriculture is the driving tempo for the physical development in the department, faculty and the college.
Research Activities
Basic and applied research in fisheries management, aquaculture, fish processing, water quality, etc. are being embarked by the members of academic staff in the department. Areas of research coverage include: fish nutrition, fish ecology, toxicology and water pollution, fish preservation and value addition, aquaria design and construction, ornamental fish production, ornamental fish feed production, mono and poly culture fish production, food and feeding habits of different freshwater fish species, acute toxicity of extracts from some of the fish feed plant ingredients or other chemical materials which are always being used for agricultural production. The members of staff in the department are in collaboration with various departments from different Universities in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.
The TetFund-NRF research grant won by a team in the department is titled “Nutrition and health implications of processed insects as protein supplements in the diets of Clarias gariepinus and Heterobranchus bidorsalis.” This study considers the use of different processed insects as replacement of fish meal in the diets of the named fish species. The study aims at investigating the possibility of replacing fish meal with black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) or grasshopper, and examine the growth effect and the health implication of these processed insects on the fish species being fed with them. The potential tendencies of these processed insects as cheaper animal protein sources over the expensive fishmeal would also be investigated. However, this study is still ongoing.
Journals:
- Nigeria Journals of Fisheries
- Field guide to Nigeria freshwater fishes
- Journal of agriculture, forestry and fisheries
- Journal of aquatic sciences
- Journal of forestry, environment and sustainable development
- Fish and human health
- Fisheries and fish toxicology
- Fish production and management manual
- Freshwater Aquaculture
- Deep water fisheries of the North Atlantic Oceanic slope
- Proceedings of the 30th FISON conference Delta 2015
- Sustainable integrated pond based aquaculture with rice and poultry production: economic, social and environment assessment
- Integrated fish farming: fish, rice and pig
- African Journal of fisheries
- Journal of Association of Nigerian Fisheries Scientist
- Journal of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Online Journals
Grants and Awards:
TETF/ES/DR/&D-CE-/NRF 2020/SETI/20/VOL.1 (Ipinmoroti et al.). Funded by Tertiary Education Trust Fund National Research Fund (TETFund-NRF).
Community Empowerment Service Project:
The department engages in sensitizing the fish farmers on the better way to produce their fish, produce their fish feed and value addition to their produced fish in order to make better profit. The alternative and cheaper fish feed ingredients to use in fish production. The Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Osun State Chapter was established by the department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management such that the results of the research studies carried out by various researchers in this profession could be introduced and discussed with the practicing fish farmers. This has been encouraging the fish farmers. The meeting holds at the main campus of the Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun State. Through the interaction with organic societies (NOAN & KCOA) in Nigeria and abroad, the department has also been able to sensitize fish farmers on the way to produce and sell organically produced fish as a means of improving their income or profit.
Dr. Olaide Kamila AKINTUNDE
Ag. HOD
Introduction:
The Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness over the years has played pivotal role in producing the knowledge base that has sustained the link between agriculture and other sectors of the economy at the national and global levels. Therefore, programmes in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management have shown the capability to produce high level manpower that can engage in teaching and research, capable of providing solutions to the very complex problems arising from the linkages of agriculture with other sector of the economy. The Department offers courses in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management that prepare the students for all levels that study in Agricultural economics and Agribusiness Management or to pursue a career as an agricultural economist in the public or private sector. The products of this famous department without doubt have been competing with their counterparts across the globe either as they progress in their academic career, multinational as well as working in public or private sector.
Location:
The Department is located in the ancient town of Ejigbo in the College of Agriculture. Ejigbo is one of the oldest local governments in the old Oyo state before the creation of Osun State. It shares boundaries with Oyo state, and Local government areas like:Iwo, Ola Oluwa, Egbedore and Ede North. The vegetation of Ejigbo is tropical Savannah and major crops are Cashew, Cocoa, maize, cassava, and oil palm.
Brief History:
The department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management came into existence following the bifurcating of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension during the 2021/2022 academic session. The first set of students were 27 in number. The department has continued to witness unprecedented growth and development in all areas.
Vision of the Programme:
The vision of the department is to be one of the outstanding departments of excellence providing high quality teaching and learning experiences in the business of farming and research in agriculture. This, we hope, will produce globally competitive graduates capable of standing out on their own as shining examples anywhere they find themselves. One of the most important ingredients we inculcate in our students is entrepreneurial spirit of excellence in agricultural economics and agribusiness management.
Mission statement:
The mission of the department is to establish a department that is technologically and professionally sound as a model centre of excellence committed to the pursuit of academic innovative and skill-based training in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management. This will set the pace and tradition of excellence in teaching, high innovative technology, research and community service.
Academic programmes:
The Department offers courses leading to the award of:
- Bachelor of Agriculture (B. Agric) degree in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management
- MSc. Agricultural Economics (Environmental and Resource Economics, Agricultural Marketing and International Commodity Trade, Agricultural Development and Policy))
- Ph.D. Agricultural Economics
Physical Developments:
Physical Development projects in the department include: Head of department office, Agric, Economics Data Laboratory, classrooms complex, laboratories complex, and farm structures. Training and visit to major markets. Others include: Conducive and Serene, Environment for learning, Comfortable Classrooms, Modern E. Technology Library, and Computer room for research.
Research activities:
Sustainable Goats and Sheep Production to Enhance Food and Economic Security of Rural Households in Osun State, Nigeria. Tetfund Institution Based Research (2023)
Grants and Awards:
Sustainable Goats and Sheep Production to Enhance Food and Economic Security of Rural Households in Osun State, Nigeria. Tetfund Institution Based Research (2023). Grant Number: UNIOSUN/TETfund/17/10
Community Empowerments Service Projects:
The department collaborates with the department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development in the establishment of Outreach centres and also plays major role in development of major markets within and outside Ejigbo.