Conservation would benefit if more women were actively involved. That is the message from TBA Director Dr. Rosie Trevelyan, who was featured on the popular BBC Radio 4 programme, Woman’s Hour, on March 18th. Rosie discussed issues around gender and conservation, the difference women would make in practice and what needs to be done to increase the number of women taking careers in conservation. Click here to listen to what Rosie had to say.
Back in the field The Tropical Biology Association was delighted to return to the field - taking 24 students to Mpala Research Centre in Kenya for four weeks this summer. For the last two years, we have been providing very successful online courses, but this was the...
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,...