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Join us in the field!
With just one month to go before applications close for TBA’s 2016 field courses in Uganda and Madagascar, the TBA wants to alert biology graduates who may not think this opportunity is for them to think again. TBA field courses are always oversubscribed, but course...
Partnership benefits farmers, business and biodiversity
The Tropical Biology Association has successfully embedded the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services into British American Tobacco’s (BAT) business core and across their supply chain through a 15-year partnership with Fauna and Flora International,...
Tailored training to transfer skills
Effective conservation programmes need well-designed projects that can measure their impacts on the ground. African conservationists and their institutions often lack the capacity to do this, which hampers progress towards addressing the continent’s conservation...
New hope for Kenyan mangroves
TBA alumna Margaret Owuor (TBA field course Kibale 2006) is one of the recipients of the 2015 Russell E. Train Fellowships. This grant will support her research project to evaluate the application of ecosystem services approach to the management of mangroves in Kenya....
Getting mobile in the field
Mobile data is transforming the way we conduct research, enhancing the ‘traditional’ data collection methods with dramatic results. From increasing accessibility to improved accuracy, mobile technology is increasing the ability of conservation biologists and...
The right way to conservation success
Conservation is more successful, and livelihoods are improved, when social and community rights are understood and addressed in conservation programmes. This was the key message to conservation professionals from seven African countries at a collaborative training...
Launching SCCS in Hungary
Imperial Eagle expansion in Spain; viper distribution in Albania; how stray dogs and humans are changing the behaviour of wild mammals in Bulgaria… just some of the conservation issues being discussed in Hungary as the popular Student Conference in Conservation...
Shaping the future
A new wave of future conservationists is being launched this summer as the TBA’s 2015 programme of field courses passes the halfway mark. Throughout July, 24 biological science graduates from 17 countries spent a month in a global biodiversity hotspot in the Usumbara...
Leading in Miombo woodlands carbon research
Dr. Ezekiel E. Mwakalukwa, a TBA alumnus from Tanzania, is charting the way forward in the sustainable management of the country’s Miombo woodlands. His PhD research data, which is to be included in a key publication on the role of East African Miombo forests in...
TBA alumni: “a critical part of Africa’s future” says UN Special Envoy
In his opening speech at the 2015 African Student Conference on Conservation Science, former President of Ghana and current UN Special Envoy of Climate Change, His Excellency John Kufuor, urged delegates to use the conference as a springboard to action: “TBA alumni...