“This follow up workshop will be a great opportunity for the participants to identify emerging issues in their data and enhance their skills in the overall management of their citizen science projects. It will be a much-needed effort in producing citizen science managers who can provide high-quality data and information in areas relevant to policymakers” says TBA Director DR Rosie TrevelyanThe training workshop is organized by the Tropical Biology Association as part of the activities under the Citizen Science in for Conservation Africa – CISCA; CISCA is collaboration led by the Tropical Biology Association and involving University of Cambridge, the British Trust for Ornithology, the National Museums of Kenya, and the Kenya Bird Map Committee with funding from the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The workshop also involves A Rocha Kenya, who together with the Nature Kenya, and the Tropical Biology Association, and the museum’s founded the Kenya Bird Map project. The next and final event under this project will be a stakeholder forum to happen in the UK in 2020.
Taking TBA training to Indo-Burma
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...