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Evans Ewald Nkrumah (PhD)

Director

Dr. Evans Ewald Nkrumah is a Ghanaian conservation scientist and academic, currently working as a senior lecturer in the Department of Wildlife and Range Management at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.

He is currently the head of the department. His research focuses on understanding the ecology of bats in natural and disturbed environments. He has specialist knowledge in animal movement ecology within agroecosystems. He has several peer-reviewed manuscripts on the ecology of bats. As a researcher, he continues to collaborate with leading experts in the field of bat research, especially from Europe and Africa. As a conservationist, Evans founded Batlife Ghana to pioneer bat conservation and has been involved in several wildlife conservation projects. Through Batlife Ghana, he has worked extensively with rural communities, engaging them in bat conservation.

Grants & Awards
  • Winner of Rufford Small Grant towards the project, ‘Surveying for Ghana’s critically endangered Robbins house bat in Eastern Ghana.’ Duration: 2017 – 2019.
 
  • Award for third best talk presentation at Tropical Biology Association Alumni (TAAG) Student Conference. Accra, Ghana, 9 – 10 June 2015. 
 
  • Winner of Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund Grant towards the ecology and conservation of Robbin’s house bat (Scotophilus nucella) in Ghana. Duration: 2014 – 2015.
 
  • Team member, Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) towards the conservation of critically endangered frog Conraua derooi in Atewa, Ghana. Duration: 2013 – 2014.
 
  • Team member, Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) towards the conservation of critically endangered frog Conraua derooi in Atewa, Ghana. Duration: 2010 – 2011.
 
  • Winner of Rufford Small Grant towards conservation of the critically endangered frog Conraua derooii in Atewa, Ghana. Duration: 2009 – 2010.
Selected Publications

Acquah, E., Owusu, D.A., Nkrumah, E.E., Anane Agyei, P. and Asare, R. (2022). Sustainable ecotourism development and visitor satisfaction: the case of Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary, Kumawu, Ghana. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 29(8): 797-811.

 

Nkrumah, E.E. and Clerk, N.C. (2021). The Response of Captive Ostrich (Struthio camelus) to Visitor Group Size and Activity at the Accra Zoological Garden in Ghana. Journal of Zoo Biology, 4(1): 21-27.

 

Nkrumah E.E., Baldwin J.H., Badu E.K., Anti P., Vallo P., Klose S., Kalko E.K.V., Oppong S.K., Tschapka S. (2021). Diversity and conservation of cave-roosting bats in central Ghana. Tropical Conservation Science, 14: 1-10. doi:  10.1177/19400829211034671.

 

Baldwin J.H., Vallo P., Ruiz A.T., Anti P., Nkrumah E.E., Badu E.K., Oppong S.K., Kalko E.K.V., Tschapka M., Stow A.J. (2021). Concordant patterns of genetic, acoustic and morphological divergence in the West African Old-World leaf-nosed bats of the Hipposideros caffer complex. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 00: 1– 18. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12506

 

Wongnaa C.A., Ansong M., Obirikorang K.A., Nkrumah E.E., Arhin A.A. (2020) Contribution of non-timber forest products to rural and urban incomes in Ghana, In Kapfudzaruwa F., Kudo S., Matsuyana K., Allasiw D.I. (eds). Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development: case studies from Africa, pp101-118. Spears Media Press, Denver

 

Obirikorang K.A, Wongnaa C.A, Nkrumah E.E., Ansong M. (2018). Uneven development: urban and industrial growth and its environmental implications for rural and urban communities in Ghana, In Kapfudzaruwa F., Kudo S., Mfune O., Hansen M., Nyerere J. (eds). Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa, pp 39-54. Spears Media Press, Denver

 

Nkrumah E.E., Opoku B.A., Badu E.K., Danquah E., Tschapka M., Oppong S.K. (2017). Estimating bat abundance and diversity in a modified tropical environment in central Ghana. Tropical Ecology, 58: 751-759.

 

Nkrumah E.E., BADU E.K., Baldwin H.J., Anti P., Klose S. M., Vallo P., Drosten C., Kalko E. K. V., Oppong S. K., Tschapka M. (2017). Flight Activity of Noack’s Round-Leaf Bat (Hipposideros cf. ruber) at Two Caves in Central Ghana, West Africa. Acta Chiropterologica,19: 347-355. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.011

 

Vallo P., Nkrumah E. E., Tehoda P., Badu E. K., Decher J. (2016). Nutlet is a little nut: Disclosure of phylogenetic position of the house bat Scotophilus nucella (Vespertilionidae). Folia Zoologica, 65(4): 302–309. doi:10.25225/fozo.v65.i4.a2.2016

 

Nkrumah E. E., Vallo P., Klose S. M., Ripperger S. P., Badu E. K., Drosten C., Kalko E. K.V., Oppong S. K., Tschapka M. (2016). Foraging behaviour and habitat selection of Noack’s round-Leaf bat (Hipposideros aff. ruber) and conservation implications. Tropical Conservation Science, 9(4): 1940082916680428.  doi: 10.1177/1940082916680428

 

Nkrumah E. E., Vallo P., Klose S. M., Ripperger S. P., Badu E. K., Drosten C., Kalko E. K.V., Tschapka M., Oppong S. K. (2016). Home range size of Noack’s round-leaf bat (Hipposideros aff. ruber) in Ghana. Acta Chiropterologica, 18(1): 239-247. doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.014

 

Anti, P., M. Owusu, A. Annan, E. E. Nkrumah, E. K. Badu, O. Agbenyega, Y.A.Sarkodie, S. Oppong,and C. Drosten (2015). Exploring the sociocultural background of human-bat interactions in rural West African Communities. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 21 (8): 1418 – 1421. 


Corman, V. M., H. J. Baldwin, A. F. Tateno, R. M. Zerbinati, A. Annan, M. Owusu, E. E. Nkrumah, G. D. Maganga, S. Oppong, and Y. Adu-Sarkodie. 2015. Evidence for an ancestral association of human coronavirus 229E with bats. Journal of Virology: JVI. 01755-01715.