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We are looking for a chair and two new trustees to help guide our organisation and support our team through the next four years. We are a small and agile charity, and by recruiting new trustees, we will build an even stronger, diverse and inclusive board with the right skills and commitment to deliver our strategy and equip us for the future.
We are proud to share that TBA director Rosie Trevelyan has won a major international conservation award for her focus on education and training. The annual Bruno H Schubert Prize recognises individuals “who have made extraordinary contributions toward the protection...
A new wave of conservationists in São Tomé and Príncipe is driving action to protect the islands’ unique biodiversity, thanks to a pioneering training programme delivered by the Tropical Biology Association (TBA). Over the past year, participants have gained the...
Join a unique group of conservationists in Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda, for the Tropical Biology Association field course in tropical ecology and conservation. For a month, participants will delve into the heart of one of Africa’s most biodiverse forests,...
The Tropical Biology Association is pleased to announce that it will be running its first field course in Guinea Bissau this autumn in partnership with CIBIO (Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources), from University of Porto, Portugal. This course will...
The Tropical Biology Association is calling for applications from African conservation scientists for an in-person course to be held in Nairobi over five days in December. Analyzing citizen science data, and communicating results is designed for African conservation...
The Tropical Biology Association requires data analysts (two in Kenya, and two in Nigeria) to join a new project aimed at improving the use of citizen science data in decision making in East and West Africa, and funded by a grant from the Darwin Initiative of the UK...
Africa supports a rich diversity of plants and animals — which are the bedrock for people’s livelihoods. However, nature everywhere is declining, and we need to act now. People and governments in Africa are noticing these declines, and are looking for reliable...
This summer 24 aspiring conservationists, half from African countries, will learn about tropical ecology and conservation in Kibale Forest National Park in Uganda. They will be participating in the TBA tropical ecology and conservation field course, with tuition and...
The TBA is launching its first training programme in the Indo-Burma hotspot in April this year. Aimed at conservation organisations in the region, the programme combines learning based on TBA’s Virtual Learning Platform, an in-person master class in Vietnam, and...