REFOREST PROGRAMME PhD SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDEES

In May, 2020 REFOREST Programme hosted at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and supported by Sida announced a call for 20 PhD scholarships in Forest Sciences. Following this call, the programme received 334 applications (18% were female). 

REFOREST Programme Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) on the 30th of September, 2020 awarded each of the candidates listed below a 4 year REFOREST Programme Scholarship to undertake PhD studies in Forest Sciences at SUA.

Read more details in the link below

https://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/reforest/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/REFOREST-schorlaships-awardees.pdf

Landmine detection rat Magawa received PDSA gold medal for his life-saving work in Cambodia

In Tanzania at Sokoine University of Agriculture a charity called APOPO have been training rats to detect landmines since the early 1990s. Even today, it’s estimated that there are still 80 million landmines around the world which are lying active and unknown. That’s why rats like Magawa have been trained. Magawa is an African Giant Pouched Rat – so much larger than your average pet rat – but still light enough that he would never set off a landmine by walking over it