Gilbert Adum Baase (TBA field course, Amani 2010) co-founder and Executive Director of the Ghanian NGO Save the Frogs has won a prestigious German Alexander von Humboldt International Climate Protection Fellowship, 2014. Gilbert will spend a year in Germany...
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Breaking new ground in Bryophyte research
Lova Marline (TBA field course, Kirindy 2010) has won a Green Talents 2014 Award for her research on bryophytes in Madagascar. Lova was one of 25 young people selected from a strong field of over 800 applicants from all over the world. Green Talent is an...
Tiwonge is International Young Conservationist of 2014
Tiwonge I. Mzumara-Gawa (TBA field course, Kibale 2005) has won the 2014 International Young Conservationist Award. Tiwonge is currently studying for a PhD at the University of KwaZulu Natal and a volunteer Conservation and Research Officer for the Wildlife and...
Kinship honours for conservation leaders
Two of our Kenyan alumni have been selected as 2014 Kinship Conservation Fellows — earning international recognition as conservation leaders. Dr. Mwangi Githiru (Kibale 1997) and Faith Milkah Muniale (Kibale 2004) joined a select group of other fellows from 10...
Taking TESSA forward
TBA alumnus Patrick Armel Mbosso (TBA field course Segera 2013) — a pioneer of the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site based Assessment (TESSA) in Africa — has been awarded a 2014 Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation. The grant will fund a project to design and...
Shaping the future in Liberia
Darlington Tuagben — the first Liberian on a TBA course (Amani 2009) — has been appointed the Assistant Managing Director of Operations at Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority by the president of Liberia, Her Excellency Hellen Sirleaf Johnson. Darlington has his...