Fish and Wildlife Technician (Optional Co-op)

The Fish and Wildlife Technician diploma at Fleming College's Frost Campus in Lindsay, Ontario prepares you for hands-on careers managing and conserving fish, wildlife and their habitats — a signature strength of Fleming's environmental school. Over two years you will study fisheries and wildlife biology, ecology, aquatic and terrestrial habitats, population sampling and monitoring, GIS, and conservation and management techniques. With an optional co-op and extensive field work in the lakes, forests and wetlands around the campus, you gain real, practical experience.

You will learn to identify and survey fish and wildlife, sample populations, assess and restore habitats, collect and analyse field data, and apply conservation and management practices. This field-intensive training makes graduates confident and employable in outdoor natural-resource roles. Graduates work as fish and wildlife technicians, fisheries and wildlife technicians, conservation field technicians, habitat technicians, and natural-resources and park staff with conservation authorities, government natural-resource agencies, consultancies and non-profits. International students gain hands-on Canadian field experience in a respected, specialised area. If you are passionate about wildlife, fisheries and the outdoors and want a practical, meaningful career protecting Canada's natural resources, this diploma is an ideal and engaging pathway, and a solid foundation for further environmental study.

With Fleming's hands-on facilities and the Frost Campus's forests, wetlands and waterways as a living classroom, graduates leave ready to step into roles such as Fish & Wildlife Technician with real, Canadian field experience employers value.