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Tanzania - February 2017. New TBA training gives African conservation leaders tools to strengthen national plans for carnivore conservation. Gregoire has a challenging job. As Benin’s National Carnivore Coordinator he is responsible for implementing his country’s...
The TBA is returning to the island of Borneo in 2017 for the first time in six years to deliver its capacity building field courses to young conservation scientists from Southeast Asia, and from around the world. Successful applicants will spend the month of October...
Our experience in building capacity in natural resource management in Africa has shown that managers achieve better impacts on biodiversity conservation from well-designed projects backed up by clear frameworks to monitor progress towards realisation of goals. That’s...
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...
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...
Conservation is more successful, and livelihoods are improved, when social and community rights are understood and addressed in conservation programmes. This was the key message to conservation professionals from seven African countries at a collaborative training...
A new wave of future conservationists is being launched this summer as the TBA’s 2015 programme of field courses passes the halfway mark. Throughout July, 24 biological science graduates from 17 countries spent a month in a global biodiversity hotspot in the Usumbara...
In an exciting new learning opportunity for conservation in Africa, the TBA ran its first course on project management and evaluation from 25 - 30 May 2015. Sixteen conservation managers from Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe attended the course which...