Pictures by  Karen Azeez, Meghan Cornwall, Katie O’Gara, Brian Schaap and Louis Vayo II from their research trip to Tanzania.

University of Michigan master students visited Tanzania over the summer as part of their Masters Project and IFRI research. Learn more about their project here.

Master’s Project Team with the Nainokwe VNRC.

Karen Azeez recording forest data in Muungano village with the team’s botanist and forest guard.

Brian Schaap, Meghan Cornwall, and Karen Azeez discuss a controlled burn in Likawage with the Kilwa District Forest Officer, Mr. Mfungavo.

 Louis Vayo observes members of the Nainokwe village Village Natural Resource Council (VNRC) drawing a map of their village and surrounding forests.

 Louis Vayo discussing REDD+ with members of the Muungano village VNRC.