Giant pangolin, caught on camera in the Dja
Giant pangolins are poorly understood creatures. The species (Smutsia gigantea) is largely nocturnal, and lives in underground burrows in the lowland forests…
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Climate change cuts plantain production, schooling
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Climate change is reducing plantain yields and school attendance rates in Cameroon from 1991 to 2011, says a study.
According to…
TED Talk 2017 Kevin Njabo: How We Can Stop Africa's Scientific Brain Drain
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How can Africans find solutions to Africa's problems? Conservation biologist Kevin Njabo tells his personal story of how he nearly became…
Work and Study in Africa Under the Judith Boyajian Travel Fellowship
The UCLA African Studies Center invites undergraduate and graduate students to apply for the Judith Boyajian Travel Fellowship.
The Judith Boyajian Travel…
UCLA Students Raise Funds to Visit CBI
Six UCLA undergraduate students have successfully completed a fundraising campaign to visit CBI and work on the Taylor Ebony Project in March 2018 for their…
Protecting National Parks with Cassava
Cassava is one of the main crops produced by communities around national parks for food and income in southwest Cameroon. The crop is largely cultivated using…
Plantains, Education and Climate Change
New research from the Congo Basin Institute has revealed links between climate change, plantain productivity and education levels in rural households in…
UCLA Student Shares Her Experience at CBI
After performing research in the forests in Cameroon, UCLA undergraduate, Alexa, started her own club at UCLA to encourage students to do research in Africa.…
Teaching for the Future of Bioinformatics
At the University of New Orleans, conservation biologist Nicola Anthony, along with partners in the U.S. and Africa, is designing curricula with CyVerse to…
Exploring the Link Between Cocoa Farms and Biodiversity
That chocolate you’re eating? There’s a good chance it came, in part, from Africa. The continent produces more than 70 percent of the world’s cocoa supply,…
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Fellowship applications are now open for advanced PhD and professional students and post-docs to spend a year conducting research related to health (defined…
