9 Best Conservation Courses on Coursera
We compared 9 Conservation courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 6 come from a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Duke University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 9
- Price range
- $49.00 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "conservation" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Conservation and Sustainable Development
Offered by University of Michigan
Protecting biodiversity and supporting local and Indigenous people are too often treated as competing goals. In "Conservation and Sustainable Development," you'll explore where those goals conflict, overlap, and evolve t...
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Managing Wetlands: Conservation & Restoration
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to wetland management, exploring key practices in conservation and restoration. Students will learn the differences between wetland conservation and restoration, and the...
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Chimpanzee Behavior and Conservation
Offered by Duke University
Chimpanzees are one of our closest living relatives, yet almost nothing was known about their behavior in the wild until Jane Goodall started her groundbreaking study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania in 1960. This s...
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Wetland Science & Management: Fundamentals to Conservation
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This specialization offers a comprehensive exploration of wetland science, from foundational knowledge to practical skills in wetland delineation and management. Learners will develop expertise in identifying, assessing,...
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Ecology: Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation
Offered by American Museum of Natural History
This course is an introduction to ecology and ecosystem dynamics using a systems thinking lens. Through a case study on Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, learners will explore how scientists study ecosystems, and inv...
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Introduction to Evolutionary Biology: Genes to Behaviour
Offered by University of Cambridge
This course gives you a solid grounding in one of biology's most fundamental disciplines, taking you from the basics of how genes build traits all the way through to the evolution of complex animal behaviour. You'll lear...
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Discover Best Practice Farming for a Sustainable 2050
Offered by University of Western Australia
The Discover Best Practice Farming for a Sustainable 2050 Course is based on a clear vision: imagine best practice farming for 2050, start to implement these strategies now, all the while making sure it will still be pro...
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The Big Stuff: Evolution and Ecology
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In this course, we will explore how evolution works to generate new species, the wide variety of life on earth. We will also touch on the importance of biodiversity for the overall health of our planet, and for our well...
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Population and Community Ecology
Offered by Pearson
Examine the large-scale ecological forces that shape our world, from the complex interactions between organisms and their environment to the factors that determine population size and structure. This course applies these...
$49.00listed price
Best Conservation Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conservation and Sustainable Development | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Managing Wetlands: Conservation & Restoration | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Chimpanzee Behavior and Conservation | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Wetland Science & Management: Fundamentals to Conservation | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Ecology: Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation | Coursera | American Museum of Natural History | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Introduction to Evolutionary Biology: Genes to Behaviour | Coursera | University of Cambridge | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Discover Best Practice Farming for a Sustainable 2050 | Coursera | University of Western Australia | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | The Big Stuff: Evolution and Ecology | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Population and Community Ecology | Coursera | Pearson | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 9 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $0.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 6 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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