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Setting the pace for regional conservation

Anitah Faranirina’s goal is to change the conservation scene in Madagascar. With her work at NGO Kolo Ala, she wants to halt the threats facing biodiversity in Madagascar. “We face a great challenge in implementing effective conservation projects as most conservation...

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Ready for the rainforest

“I can’t think of of anywhere else where I could have acquired such a broad skillset in such a short time.” That is how Swedish ecology graduate, Arvid Lindh, felt after a month on a TBA field course at the Danum Valley Field Centre in Sabah, Southeast Asia. Today, a...

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to TBA Director, Rosie Trevelyan, and TBA alumnus Dr Chabi Adéyèmi Marc Sylvestre Djagoun, who have both received British Ecological Society (BES) awards, recognising distinguished ecologists whose work has benefited the scientific community and...

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Publish and be heard!

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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WordPress Resources at SiteGround

WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and provide users with multiple resources to facilitate the management of their...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A new-look TESSA for 2018

Here’s a tip from TBA for conservation organisations who might still thinking about New Year resolutions. Take a look at the new version of TESSA - the interactive toolkit designed to help managers evaluate ecosystem services at site level. TESSA equips managers with...

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