The OBPE and the University of Burundi organize annual internships for 3rd year students from different faculties working on various themes.

It is in this context that the student NDAYIKENGURUKIYE Aline from the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology did an internship at the OBPE located in Jabe within the Biodiversity Research Department, under the following theme: “Inventory of ecosystem services in the Rusizi National Park”.

The study consisted of inventorying the various ecosystem services of the Rusizi National Park and classifying them according to their categories. The supervision of the student was provided by Prof. Joël NDAYISHIMIYE, Professor at the University of Burundi and Mr Onesphore MASABO, researcher at OBPE.

	The internship began with a documentary research to be able to identify the ecosystem services of the Rusizi National Park. Thus, various documents were consulted in order to be able to collect information on these PNRI services.
Literature research on PNri ecosystem services		Field visit to observe PNri ecosystem services

After this documentary search, the student carried out a field visit to this park for direct observations and interviews with the managers.

Finally, the data collected was analyzed and then the internship report compiling all the information collected was written.