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TBA training came to Cambridge this summer. While tourists queued up to peer into the magnificent Great Court of Trinity College, tucked away in a seminar room on the other side of the river, twelve conservation scientists from countries across Africa spent a week on...
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Securing the future for mangroves
Patience Juma wants to play an active part in protecting her country’s coastline. That’s why she is currently working for the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), where her job includes helping to establish three new mangrove tree nurseries and...
Collaboration will raise impact of citizen science in Africa
Citizen science will have more impact in conservation in Africa thanks to a new collaborative project that the TBA is leading. It brings together the global ornithology organisation, the BTO; the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology; the National Museums of...
A good start increases impact
A training course that TBA co-organised with the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in Kenya has given conservation managers working at grass roots level new skills to raise the impact of projects designed to protect critically endangered species – including...
Raising the bar in hotspot conservation
Who’s going to ensure that the haunting gaze of the critically endangered blue-eyed black lemur looks down on future generations? In response to this, and other pressing conservation concerns in Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands, a pioneering TBA master class has...
New leadership for alumni in Nigeria
Freshwater ecologist, Dr Emmanuel Olusegun Akindele, is the new President and country coordinator of the Nigerian TBA Alumni Group (NTBA). Dr Akindele, who is a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Obafemi Awolowo University was elected, along with deputy...
Moving forward in the world of conservation
The resident undergraduates have left Cambridge for the spring holidays, but the university’s zoology department burst into life again as hundreds of young conservation scientists from across the world packed the lecture hall for the 19th Student Conference on...
Thumbs up for teaching how to teach
TBA has been training trainers in Malawi and Kenya to help ensure that new findings about the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation reach the people who shape future policy and good practice. The two Professional Development Courses, held in March...
Master class in Madagascar
Civil society organisations (CSO) working in conservation across the Madagascar and Indian Ocean biodiversity hotspot have until 9 March to nominate middle and senior managers for a TBA master class, aimed at raising the impact of their projects on the ground. This...