3rd Baccalaureate from different faculties and working on different themes.

 

Thus, on December 18, the student BAYUBAHE Gérard from the Faculty of Agronomy and Bioengineering, Department of Environmental Sciences and Technologies completed an internship on the theme: “Analysis of the specific richness of Fabaceae and Rubiaceae in Protected Areas of Burundi”.

 

This study consisted in identifying species from the Fabaceae and Rubiaceae families in the three national parks, in particular Ruvubu, Kibira and Rusizi National Parks. The supervision of the student was provided by Msc. NDORERE Vénérant, Teacher at the University of Burundi and Msc. MBARUSHIMANA Didier, researcher at OBPE.

	From November 18, 2019 to December 18, 2020, the student identified samples from these two families available at the OBPE herbarium. He referred to Troupin's books in order to be able to identify them and to species already identified and preserved at the OBPE herbarium located in Jabe within the Biodiversity Research Department.
Student BAYUBAHE Gérard during the identification of specimens

 

From December 18 to January 18, 2020, the student recorded all the species of these two families of the three parks already identified and preserved in the OBPE herbarium.

Finally, from January 18 to February 18, 2020, an analysis of the data and the drafting of the internship report were carried out.