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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...
Erustus Kanga’s conservation journey has reached a real milestone. We first met him as a student on one of our TBA field courses in Kibale, Uganda, in 1996, and he has been working for wildlife conservation ever since, rising to become Wildlife Secretary in Kenya’s...
The recent COP27 in Egypt brought together a number of Tropical Biology Association alumni who were there to make the case for conservation in Africa. Our alumni were representing NGO’s that were part of our capacity building programme in the Guinea Forests of West...
Said Ahamada (below front left) from the Comoros Islands visited TBA’s Nairobi office recently. He took time off from his busy programme of restoring mangroves, reducing plastic pollution and running education programmes in the Comoros. The excitement in his face...
Twenty-four aspiring conservation scientists are in Kenya for the Tropical Biology Association’s first field course since 2019. Mostly in their 20s, the participants come from 19 different countries- half of them from across Africa. Based at Mpala Research Station,...
Need funding for your project? Want to get your paper published? The Tropical Biology Association online courses will provide you with the skills you need. Scientific Writing and Publishing will help you communicate the importance and impact of your work to the wider...
We have filled our vacancy for a course coordinator.
The Tropical Biology Association is launching new online courses so that more aspiring conservationists can benefit from our training and have a greater impact on the ground. We are using the potential that to-day’s online environment offers to design innovative...