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Global Environment Facility (GEF) Regional Training Empowers GEF Operational Focal Points with Tools for Impactful Project Oversight Windhoek, Namibia – 15 April 2025 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is partnering with the Tropical Biology Association (TBA) to...
The Tropical Biology Association, in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is hosting a two-day training event for Operational Focal Points (OFPs) from across West Africa, in Accra, Ghana, from April 10 to 11, 2025. The training will showcase...
Collaboration is the key to integrating citizen science data into conservation efforts across Africa, scientists and government agencies were told at a gathering of stakeholders in Abuja. The importance of such data gathering – logged by citizen scientists – was top...
The Guinean Forest of West Africa, home to a quarter of Africa’s mammals, is threatened by unregulated logging, hunting, pollution and climate change. A new masterclass enhancing the organisational capacity of civil society organisations (CSO) has sewn the roots for a...
Making citizen science data work for conservation in Africa A new cohort of conservation practitioners and citizen science managers are now equipped with expertise to guide conservation using citizen science data. Our innovative training course brought together...
24 young conservationists are embarking on the final stage of their TBA field course at Uganda's Makerere University Biological Field Station. Having spent the first two weeks of the course learning about tropical forest ecology, through workshops and practical...
Nineteen citizen science managers from nine African countries have met to learn about using citizen science data to create a conservation impact. Citizen science is an incredibly effective way of gathering information about plants and animals through engaging people....
TBA and Kabale University held a dynamic workshop to explore the technical skills gaps hampering ecosystem restoration in Uganda and propose how we might fill them. Experts from NGOs, government departments, universities, and the private sector spent two days in...
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 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...