A good start increases impact

A training course that TBA co-organised with the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in Kenya has given conservation managers working at grass roots level new skills to raise the impact of projects designed to protect critically endangered species – including...

Raising the bar in hotspot conservation

Who’s going to ensure that the haunting gaze of the critically endangered blue-eyed black lemur looks down on future generations? In response to this, and other pressing conservation concerns in Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands, a pioneering TBA master class has...

New leadership for alumni in Nigeria

Freshwater ecologist, Dr Emmanuel Olusegun Akindele, is the new President and country coordinator of the Nigerian TBA Alumni Group (NTBA). Dr Akindele, who is a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Obafemi Awolowo University was elected, along with deputy...

Moving forward in the world of conservation

The resident undergraduates have left Cambridge for the spring holidays, but the university’s zoology department burst into life again as hundreds of young conservation scientists from across the world packed the lecture hall for the 19th Student Conference on...