Forest Assistant, Forest Training Institute, Northern Tanzania, Ministry of
Natural Resources and Tourism
Supervision of activities related to the nursery & arboreta
In charge of Herbarium at Forestry Training Institute
Preparation and teaching of botany and ecological practicals to forestry and
beekeeping students
Botanical consultation to various institutions
Plant specimen collection and description of habitat and locality
Plant specimen drying, packing, mounting
Specimen identification and filing
2005 – 2006
Research Assistant, Tanzania Botanical Research and Conservation International
and the Missouri Botanical Garden
Plant species inventory in Kilwa, and Lindi [Lindi Region], Mpwapwa
[Dodoma Region], Kilombero and Ifakara districts [Morogoro Region]
Data basing suspected East African threatened, vulnerable,
and endangered plant species at the National Herbarium of Tanzania
Plant species identification at the East African Herbarium-Nairobi
National Museum-Kenya
Survey on the trampling impact of trails and campsites at Mount
Kilimanjaro-Tanzania in collaboration with the Kilimanjaro National Park
[KINAPA] Ecological Department
1999 – 2005
Field Botanist/Technician,
National Herbarium of Tanzania - TPRI
Plant species inventory working with Tanzania Botanical Research
Programme
Part time Tour Guide Instructor, Arusha Municipality
Teacher at Akeri Vocation Training Centre and Olmotonyi Forestry
College in Arusha (Habitat Descriptions, Collection and Identification
of Plant Specimens, Basic Plant Taxonomy)
Botanical Survey for the Arusha Catchment Forest, at Duluti Lake
Field Station
1988 - 1999
Other Botanical Experience
Collection and identification of chimpanzee’s food plants at
Gombe National Park, Tanzania, sponsored by Missouri Botanical
Garden-USA.
Natural plant species regeneration, Pungaluma Farm (Mbeya Rural
District, South Western highlands of Tanzania)
Systematic collection of Clerodendrum spp. in Mbeya region,
South Western highlands of Tanzania, with a Ph.D. student from Oxford
University-UK.
Production of a basic report of names and uses of local natural
plants species around Kidabaga and East Mufindi Forest Reserves near
Broke Bond Tea Estates, in Iringa rural and Mufindi Districts, sponsored
by DANIDA
Collection of plant specimens along the coastal belt of Tanzania for
Frontier Tanzania
Collection of plant samples conducted by the National Cancer Institute
of USA and the Traditional Medicine Research Unit (now Institute of
Traditional Medicine) of Muhimbili Medical Center, Dar-Es-Salaam
Botanical Collector Assistant and Botany Field Trips Supervisor with
Missouri Botanical Garden in Tanzania.