Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 06 - Physical and life sciences and technologies
• 26. - Biological and biomedical sciences
• 26.13 - Ecology, evolution, systematics and population biology

26.1307 - Conservation biology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the application of the biological sciences to the specific problems of biodiversity, species preservation, ecological sustainability, and habitat fragmentation in the face of advancing human social, economic, and industrial pressures. These programs include courses in ecology, environmental science, biological systems, extinction theory, human-animal and human-plant interaction, ecosystem science and management, wetland conservation, field biology, forest and wildlife biology, and natural history.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • conservation biology

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • biology(26.0101)
  • ecology(26.1301)
  • environmental biology(26.1305)
  • environmental science(03.0104)
  • historic preservation and conservation(30.1201)
  • natural resources conservation(03.0101)
  • renewable resources(03.0199)
  • wildlife biology(26.0709)