We are excited to announce that, Prof. Pantaleo Munishi of the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, will be honoured with an honorary fellowship by the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation for 2024. This prestigious global recognition celebrates his outstanding contribution to ecology, biology and conservation!Please join us in congratulating him on this remarkable achievement. #ArdhinihazinaRead More

To SUA Community, On behalf of SUA Management, we would like to wish all the students of Sokoine University of Agriculture, the best of luck in their upcoming exams.Read More

People in the UK love discussing the weather. For the first two weeks of June 2024, the cold, dull conditions were all they could talk about. Major news outlets like the BBC, the Guardian, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph all carried stories on this theme. The colder start to June was driven by winds from the north, bringing...Read More

While a growing body of research highlights the impacts of climate change on wild apes, sanctuaries caring for apes are also feeling the impacts of a warming world. Sanctuaries across Africa are affected by changing weather patterns, including both droughts and floods, increasing the challenges of caring for resident apes. Extreme weather also increases the...Read More

Business leaders must scale up action to fast-track the transition towards a nature-positive future, unlocking new opportunities for organisations and making them more resilient. Recent guidance outlines the priority actions for specific sectors, including household and personal care products, cement and concrete, and chemicals. Many companies are already working to protect biodiversity, but these specific...Read More

We are getting dangerously close to environmental tipping points, which the natural world may not be able to recover from. To counteract this, it is hoped that a Global Biodiversity Framework can be agreed upon at the UN BD COP15 now happening in Montreal. A robust ‘Paris Agreement’ for nature is required to bend the curve on...Read More

Biodiversity is important to our health, security and economies, but it’s declining rapidly threatening the very foundations of our future. There is a need to raise financing for nature, and biodiversity credits are a crucial tool to channel investments for nature-positive outcomes. The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits is bringing together stakeholders to drive...Read More

Businesses are keenly aware that consumers value ethical business practices, including the protection of biodiversity, and many have committed to biodiversity conservation. A road block, however, turns out to be the large variety of ways that have been suggested to measure biodiversity and so the positive and negative impacts of business practices. The result is...Read More

With its dense network of rivers, streams, and mangroves, the southwest region of Bangladesh represents an ecologically vibrant but deeply vulnerable region. The low-lying deltaic plains, interspersed with numerous communities and water bodies, are at risk of cyclones, erosion, flooding, and saltwater intrusion. During fieldwork conducted in this region for the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic...Read More