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Conference Sponsors and Partners<br />

Lion Sponsor<br />

Eagle Sponsor<br />

Mt Kenya Sponsors<br />

<strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>Biology</strong> <strong>Association</strong> (TBA)<br />

As the Lion sponsor <strong>of</strong> the Conference, the TBA is standing to its<br />

mission <strong>of</strong> developing the capability <strong>of</strong> people and institutions<br />

to effectively manage biodiversity in the tropics, and <strong>of</strong> building<br />

bridges for collaboration and networking among African and<br />

European biologists alike thereby strengthening the<br />

international scientific and conservation community.<br />

BES <strong>Tropical</strong> Ecological Group (BESTEG)<br />

The aim <strong>of</strong> BESTEG is to promote and facilitate communication<br />

and interaction between tropical ecologists. This is to enable<br />

transfer and development <strong>of</strong> knowledge and skills; interdisciplinary<br />

research activities; communication with<br />

practitioners and policy; and support for early career<br />

researchers.<br />

BES Outreach Grants<br />

The vision <strong>of</strong> BES is to advance ecology and make it count. This<br />

it does through thepublication <strong>of</strong> five internationally renowned<br />

journals, the organisation and sponsorship <strong>of</strong> scientific<br />

meetings, its numerous grant schemes, and by engaging in<br />

education and policy work. BES supports the gratis book<br />

scheme which is aimed at making ecological publications widely<br />

accessible.BES’s Outreach Grants helps promote ecological<br />

science to a wide audience.<br />

National Museums <strong>of</strong> Kenya<br />

NMK is a multi-disciplinary institution whose role is to collect,<br />

preserve, study, document and present Kenya’s past and<br />

present cultural and natural heritage. This is for the purposes<br />

<strong>of</strong> enhancing knowledge, appreciation, respect and sustainable<br />

utilization <strong>of</strong> these resources for the benefit <strong>of</strong> Kenya and the<br />

world, for now and posterity.

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