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TBA alumna Margaret Owuor (TBA field course Kibale 2006) is one of the recipients of the 2015 Russell E. Train Fellowships. This grant will support her research project to evaluate the application of ecosystem services approach to the management of mangroves in Kenya....
Dr. Ezekiel E. Mwakalukwa, a TBA alumnus from Tanzania, is charting the way forward in the sustainable management of the country’s Miombo woodlands. His PhD research data, which is to be included in a key publication on the role of East African Miombo forests in...
Ghanaian herpetologist, Caleb Ofori (2007 Kibale course) has won a prestigious Future for Nature Award 2014 for his contribution to research and conservation of frogs and their environment in Ghana. The award supports young, talented conservationists who are committed...
Congratulations to Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka (TBA field course Kirindy 2005) for scooping the 2014 Marsh Award for Terrestrial Conservation Leadership. Julie won the award for her tireless effort in supporting conservation in her homeland of Madagascar. She is the...
Gilbert Adum Baase (TBA field course, Amani 2010) co-founder and Executive Director of the Ghanian NGO Save the Frogs has won a prestigious German Alexander von Humboldt International Climate Protection Fellowship, 2014. Gilbert will spend a year in Germany...
Lova Marline (TBA field course, Kirindy 2010) has won a Green Talents 2014 Award for her research on bryophytes in Madagascar. Lova was one of 25 young people selected from a strong field of over 800 applicants from all over the world. Green Talent is an...
Tiwonge I. Mzumara-Gawa (TBA field course, Kibale 2005) has won the 2014 International Young Conservationist Award. Tiwonge is currently studying for a PhD at the University of KwaZulu Natal and a volunteer Conservation and Research Officer for the Wildlife and...
2014 has been a great year for TBA as many of our alumni received recognition for their conservation work — both in their own countries as well as internationally. Read about these wonderful achievements in Alumni news, and find out more about the career development...
Two of our Kenyan alumni have been selected as 2014 Kinship Conservation Fellows — earning international recognition as conservation leaders. Dr. Mwangi Githiru (Kibale 1997) and Faith Milkah Muniale (Kibale 2004) joined a select group of other fellows from 10...
TBA alumnus Patrick Armel Mbosso (TBA field course Segera 2013) — a pioneer of the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site based Assessment (TESSA) in Africa — has been awarded a 2014 Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation. The grant will fund a project to design and...