Grants awarded

YAHAYA Ibrahim, Comoros

Abstract

This project is complementary to the one of S.A SOIFA. It aims to make operational the needed human and infrastructural capacity to install and maintain a reference collection of holothuroid specimens.

Training location and duration: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels and Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren; from 20.VI.2004 to 04.VII.2004

Gained personal capacity: Mr YAHAYA is now capable of handling specimen databases.

Gained institutional capacity: laptop equiped with a clone of the specimen database of the holothuroid collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa; nucleus of a holothuroid reference collection now present in the Centre national de documentation et de recherchescientifique in Moroni.

Remarks: Mr. I YAHAYA benefitted from several other training sessions in Belgium; notably via the African Biodiversity Information Center.

Output: cf. Mr. A. Soifa.

Newspaper

Left: article in a local journal (photo by: Y. SAMYN).
Middle: a small but useful reference collection has been set up (photo by: Y. SAMYN).
Right: boiling of caught sea cucumbers prepares for further processing (photo by: D. VANDENSPIEGEL).