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...
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TBA alumni in Cambridge for student conference
More than 160 young champions of conservation science flocked to Cambridge from all over the world for three days in March for the 17th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS). The TBA is a co-founder and co-organiser of this unique forum - the only...
Join us in the field!
With just one month to go before applications close for TBA’s 2016 field courses in Uganda and Madagascar, the TBA wants to alert biology graduates who may not think this opportunity is for them to think again. TBA field courses are always oversubscribed, but course...
Partnership benefits farmers, business and biodiversity
The Tropical Biology Association has successfully embedded the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services into British American Tobacco’s (BAT) business core and across their supply chain through a 15-year partnership with Fauna and Flora International,...
Tailored training to transfer skills
Effective conservation programmes need well-designed projects that can measure their impacts on the ground. African conservationists and their institutions often lack the capacity to do this, which hampers progress towards addressing the continent’s conservation...