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Birds, bats and butterflies fly up agenda thanks to Nigeria’s citizens
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...
Transforming conservation in a biodiversity hotspot through training
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...
Step into the Wild: TBA’s 2025 Uganda Field Course is Open for Applications!
Join a unique group of conservationists in Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda, for the Tropical Biology Association field course in tropical ecology and conservation. For a month, participants will delve into the heart of one of Africa’s most biodiverse forests,...
Making citizen science data work for conservation in Africa
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...
First-hand learning in the forest
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...
Using Citizen Science data for decision making
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....
Developing capacity for landscape restoration
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...
TBA’s first course in Portuguese
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...
Citizen Science course
The Tropical Biology Association is calling for applications from African conservation scientists for an in-person course to be held in Nairobi over five days in December. Analyzing citizen science data, and communicating results is designed for African conservation...
Data analysts wanted
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...