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The number of scholarship awardees grew to 30 alumni with 3 new offers in 2008. The beneficiaries join a growing number of Africa experts that the TBA is helping build. Below are some updates.
2003 Masters scholarship holder, Amis Mao Angua, won the Society for Conservation Biology 2007 Student Award for his paper and talk on "Do freshwater and terrestrial priorities overlap in conservation assessments?". Amis is currently doing his PhD in Cape Town University.
Kowiyou Yessoufou, 2003 TBA MSc scholarship holder, is also the coordinator of the Benin alumni group, and currently works at the Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection of Benin as Ministry Assistant. He presented his Masters thesis work in a regional seminar at Bamako. Click here to view his presentation as a pdf.
2005 master's scholarship holder, Mwema Martin Musangu, just finished his Masters with 1st class grade from Cape Town University. Click here to download the pdf of the poster that he presented at the Society for Conservation Biology 2007 conference in South Africa.
2006 Masters scholarship holder, Josia Razafindramanana, has been accepted to start her MPhil in Britain this coming academic year.
2008 Masters scholarship holder, Caleb Ofori, writes "My pioneering long-term amphibian research in Ghana has resulted in the discovery of two new species to science (one of them through TBA funding). Interestingly, this is the only time in history a native (Ghanaian) is leading amphibian research in Ghana. Thanks to the TBA experience!"
African Education for Leaders in Conservation (AELC) Masters scholarship
TBA is very proud to see that our European alumni united and took the initiative to set up a scholarship fund. The scholarship was set up by the European participants from the TBA course in Tanzania 2003 to raise money to for one of their fellow African participants to complete a Masters course.
"We set this fund up to contribute to conservation on the long term, by enabling an African to pursue their education to a level necessary to make a significant contribution to their country's development. We believed that with an MSc degree, this person would stand a better chance to be involved in conservation projects or in decision-making processes concerning conservation of natural resources in their country." Nick van de Wiel, AELC coordinator.
Towards the end of 2005, the award was given to Simon Musila who used the award to enrol for an MSc in Environmental Studies specialising in Community Development at Kenyatta University, Kenya in September 2006. He said "I have deliberately chosen the area of study since today it has become common knowledge that we cannot preserve biodiversity...the challenge to conserve biological resources we have to strive to invent better and appropriate ways to protect the invaluable assets of our country."
For more information on the AELC scholarship and how you could set up a scholarship programme for one of your fellow TBA course mates, please don't hesitate to email us .