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Congo Basin Institute and Tom Smith in National Geographic: Cameroon’s embattled ebony trees get a lifeline—from guitar maker
Bob Taylor met Tom Smith, director of UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute, who had worked in Cameroon for decades and knew as much about its forest ecology as Taylor knew about…
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Tom Smith on CBS This Morning News: UN Biodiversity report
UCLA’s Tom Smith spoke with CBS about a new United Nations report that says nature is essential for our existence and a good quality of life, but point to a…
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Thomas Smith presentation + Q&A at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Thomas Smith is the founding director of the Center for Tropical Research and co-executive director of the Congo Basin Institute. He presented on his work and experience in the Congo…
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Congo Basin Institute in Foreign Service Journal
UCLA operates multiple tropical research facilities in Central Africa through its Congo Basin Institute, a partnership with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. In this Foreign Service Journal article, the…
After 31 years, a strange bird brings UCLA professor’s career full circle
Advances in genetics and computing helped Tom Smith determine why seedcrackers’ bills vary in size
