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Sir David Attenborough opens new conservation campus
Sir David Attenborough has officially opened a new campus in Cambridge which is the centre of the world’s largest grouping of nature conservation organisations and university researchers. The building housing the campus has been named after Sir David, who has links...
TBA alumni in Cambridge for student conference
More than 160 young champions of conservation science flocked to Cambridge from all over the world for three days in March for the 17th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS). The TBA is a co-founder and co-organiser of this unique forum - the only...
Workshop shows scientists how to communicate with the public
Introduction to popular scientific writing - a one day workshop, Kenya The TBA Kenya Alumni Group are organising a one day workshop on 30 March 2016 to help scientists to reach a wider audience, by sharing their work and their enthusiasm with the public. Popular...
New Director at Makerere field station
2016 kicked off with the good news that TBA alumnus, Dr David Tumusiime, had been appointed Director of Makerere University Biological Field Station in Kibale, the host site for our field courses in Uganda. David is an Associate Professor of Environment and Natural...
Designing better projects for improved conservation impact
Our experience in building capacity in natural resource management in Africa has shown that managers achieve better impacts on biodiversity conservation from well-designed projects backed up by clear frameworks to monitor progress towards realisation of goals. That’s...
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...