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TBA Director, Rosie Trevelyan, will describe why capacity building is key to managing natural resources sustainably when she addresses an international audience at the Heart of Borneo conference in Malaysia this month (24-25 October). Dr Trevelyan has been invited to...
The TBA has been invited to design and deliver training in Africa for a UK government-funded programme which is assessing how ecosystem services can be sustainably managed to help the world’s poorest people. The programme - Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation,...
The tangible impact of TBA capacity building will be felt in Nigeria this week when dozens of students from universities across the country converge for a conference to discuss key national conservation issues. ‘Conservation without Constraints’, which runs from 25-27...
The new head of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA) is a TBA alumnus who laid the foundations for his career in conservation during a TBA field course in Tanzania (Amani) in 2009. Darlington Tuagben has been appointed Managing Director of the FDA, where he...
TBA alumnus Dufie Adu-Pakoh is the first and only woman to hold the post of Basin Officer for Ghana’s Water Resources Commission (WRC). On International Day of Action for Rivers, Dufie told us that her proudest achievement is getting schools and communities involved...
These stunning Baobabs of Kirindy forest are just one aspect of the daily magic that awaits 18 young scientists for the next month as they discover the amazing biodiversity of this threatened ecosystem and learn essential skills that conservationists need to safeguard...
The art of specimen collection and preparation is important, especially for field scientists, because each specimen collected serves as a key source of reliable information. However, few opportunities are available for scientists to learn practically how to collect...
One of the main outputs of a joint initiative to integrate social and rights-based principles in conservation is a training package that is now available on an open access basis in print and online. The TBA was one of four partner organisations from the Cambridge...
TBA alumnus, Gilbert Adum, is a winner of this year’s prestigious Whitley Awards for his pioneering work in amphibian conservation in his home country of Ghana. Gilbert is one of six winners, selected from 127 applicants from 53 countries, who receive £35,000 project...
Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta, set light to a vast stockpile of ivory to mark the end of a summit of African leaders against poaching and illegal trade in ivory. Around 120 tonnes of ivory were torched, the largest stockpile ever destroyed by any country, in a...