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News
Archive News Udzungwa GIS database now available at the UEMC office. See under Monitoring, Research, Data page for more information.1/24/2010 Hostel for students and trainees annexed to the Centre opening soon ! Beginning in February 2010, the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre will expand considerably with the opening of an hostel located just by the main building. The hostel consists of two blocks: a dining room with kitchen, and a dormitory to acommodate up to 24 people. The hostel will greatly increase capacities to organize training courses and field practicals for ecologists and students.9/10/2009 New mammal from the Udzungwa Mountains Staff members of the UEMC, Francesco Rovero and Ruben Mwakisoma, were part of the team that discovered the new species of giant elephant shrew. The new species was called Rhynchocyon udzungwensis (Rovero et al. 2008) because it is endemic to only two forests in the Udzungwa Mountains (Mwanihana and Ndundulu-Luhomero), and is the largest of its kind ever found. Read more at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080131-giant-shrew.html The description of the new species was published in the February issue of the Journal of Zoology (pdf available from francesco.rovero@mtsn.tn.it) 2/1/2008 UEMC site on-line On-line the new site of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre7/30/2007 Page: 1 |
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