AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 2
AIM Qualifications Level 2 Award in Environmental Conservation and Heritage
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits9
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by AIM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units AIM Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Biological Field Identification SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of taxonomy.
- Use a scientific key to identify species.
- Collect, record and identify specimens from a field site.
- Apply appropriate Health and Safety procedures when carrying out a field survey.
Carry out Habitat ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out habitat maintenance tasks.
- Understand the need to manage vegetation.
- Manage vegetation in a habitat.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
Carry out Wetland ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out wetland maintenance tasks.
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for wetland.
- Work according to job specifications.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
Carry out Woodland ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out woodland maintenance tasks.
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for woodland.
- Work according to job specifications.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
Control Pests, Diseases and DisordersReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Control pests, diseases and disorders.
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
- Control pests, diseases and disorders.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them.
Control of Invasive SpeciesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify invasive species in the field.
- Remove invasive species.
- Understand legal requirements for removal of invasive species.
- Work safely in the field to remove invasive species.
Field Survey SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about field survey schemes.
- Plan a field survey.
- Conduct a site based field survey using recognised techniques.
- Report on a field survey.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures when carrying out a field survey.
Grassland ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect grassland vegetation.
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for grassland.
- Work according to job specifications.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
Hedge LayingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reasons for laying hedges.
- Know which species are suitable for hedge laying.
- Know different styles of hedge laying.
- Know a range of hand tools used in hedge laying.
- Care for and maintain hand tools used in hedge laying.
- Assess risk in hedge laying.
- Lay a hedge.
- Understand methods used to restore old and neglected hedges.
Heritage ResearchReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Gather information on the history of the local area.
- Select information on the history of the local area, relevant to a specific brief.
- Present information on the history of the local area.
- Review own research.
Practical skills for dry stone wallingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Dismantle a wall
- Lay foundations
- Construct a wall
Sharpening and Maintenance of Edged Hand ToolsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the structure and function of a range of edged hand tools.
- Know the reasons for sharpening and maintaining tools.
- Know a range of sharpening devices.
- Sharpen a range of edged tools.
- Repair a range of edged tools.
- Undertake tool maintenance.
- Carry out a risk assessment for sharpening an edged tool.
Sustainable Woodland ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of woodland sustainability.
- Understand the key principles and processes of woodland management planning.
- Know about the history of UK woodland management.
- Know about present woodland law and licence requirements.
- Know a range of methods of coppice management and timber processing.
- Understand relevant safe working practice in woodland management.
Wildlife and HabitatsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different habitats.
- Know the main groups of animals and plants.
- Use a key or guide to identify plant and animal species.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Lay a Hedge Legacy
- Plan and oversee field surveys
- Sharpen and Maintain Edged Hand Tools Legacy
Where this can lead
Biodiversity Analyst
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly impactful career in sustainability. If you bring the curiosity and the effort, we'll help you build the expertise.
See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for AIM Qualifications Level 2 Award in Environmental Conservation and Heritage
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.
- Biological Field Identification Skills
- Carry out Habitat Management
- Carry out Wetland Management
- Carry out Woodland Management
- Control Pests, Diseases and Disorders
- Control of Invasive Species
and 8 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.