The Scientific Bulletin on Environment and Biodiversity has just been set up by the Committee of Editors of the INECN Scientific Bulletin, which was created in May 2006 and which had already published 13 issues. The present bulletin therefore comes to work in the spirit of the first with the same Scientific Committee and the same Editors Committee. The overall objective of creating the Scientific Bulletin on Environment and Biodiversity therefore remains that of setting up an information system to disseminate scientific knowledge on biodiversity across the continent. This scientific newsletter is annual.

The publisher of the newsletter is the Biological Diversity Information Exchange Center (CHM, Clearing House Mechanism). The CHM-Burundian is a center created in 2002 under the Belgian Partnership under the Convention on Biological Diversity. The center disseminates information online through the website: http://bi.chm-cbd.net hosted by the CHM-Belge of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Brussels (IRSNB).

At the level of Burundi, the bulletin produced in hard copy is also deposited at: - The library of the Burundian Office for Environmental Protection; - The library of the Ministry in charge of the Environment; - The Central Library of the University of Burundi; - The library of the Ecole Normale Supérieure; - The library of the Ecole Normale Supérieure; - The Scientific Research Department of the Ministry responsible for Higher Education in its remit; - The National Archives House; - The library of the National School of Administration; - The library of the Press House; - The library of the University of Ngozi; - The library of the Polytechnic University of Gitega; - The library of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Burundi (ISABU); - The library of the National Center for Agri-Food Technology (CNTA); - The library of the National Center for Agri-Food Technology (CNTA).

This newsletter is distributed free of charge online and in print. Articles published in this newsletter may not be republished or commercially manipulated under any circumstances. In the event of appropriation of the data by a person external to the publication, in particular due to lack of respect for normal bibliographical citation procedures, the offender will be subject to justice in accordance with the laws in force relating to intellectual property law in Burundi.

For bibliographical purposes, a newsletter article should be cited as follows: Author name (Year). Title of the article. Scientific Bulletin on Environment and Biodiversity n°: Bulletin n°: page (from-to) or bull.sci.environ.biodiv. bulletin n°: page (from-to).

E.g.: Dushimirimana, S. (2017). Abundance and ecological interactions of different taxonomic groups of soil invertebrates in the Bugesera region of Burundi. Scientific Bulletin on Environment and Biodiversity. 2:9-16.

E.g.: Biringanine, M., Habiyaremye, M.F., Masumbuko, N.C. (2017). Use of lianas from mountain forests in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Scientific Bulletin on Environment and Biodiversity.