Center for Tropical Research

Videos

CABAlliance – Mist Netting Birds in Ebo Forest, Cameroon

Dr. Thomas Smith sets up mist nets to catch birds at the Njuma Camp of the Ebo Forest.  

Avoiding Biodiversity Collapse in Tropical Protected Areas

Featuring William F. Laurance, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor, James Cook University, Australia Many of the world’s leading tropical protected areas are now fragments or man‐made islands surrounded by drastically modified…

Marine Biology Researchers Promotes Awareness for the Coral Triangle through Billy Joel Songng

Students from UCLA’s ecology and evolutionary biology department explain their research in Professor Paul Barber’s laboratory. Their tune to Billy Joel’s “For the Longest Time” promotes awareness of the evolution…

Heron Island Summit Video

CTR Director Tom Smith was a keynote speaker at the Applied Evolution Summit, “Interdisciplinary Solutions to Evolutionary Challenges in Food, Health and the Environment,” held on Heron Island, Australia, January…

Tracking Hornbill Movements in Cameroon

UCLA’s International Research & Training Center in Cameroon hosts researchers such as Prof. Tom Smith and his team from the Center for Tropical Research. Prof. Smith leads the IRTC and…

Video of Center for Tropical Research’s projects in Ecuador

A five-minute streaming video of CTR’s projects in Ecuador. To request a DVD of a longer 20 minute version of the video, please email Jordan Karubian at jordank@ucla.edu.