Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. February 2011 (Cameroon News) – The classes for the second batch of the Masters Degree course in International Biodiversity and Environment of Tropical Vegetations have started off at CRESA Forêt-bois, Nkolbisson-Yaounde yesterday.

The matriculation ceremony had been arranged at the campus of CRESA Forêt-bois, Nkolbisson-Yaounde yesterday. Students from both inside and outside Africa who have opted to take the Masters Degree course in International Biodiversity and Environment of Tropical Vegetations (BEVT) in Cameroon have formally started off their classes.

The matriculation ceremony that was arranged yesterday February 2 at the campus of the CRESA Forêt-bois Nkolbisson-Yaounde, a study centre of the University of Dschang had officially marked the start. The ceremony was undertaken by a college of university dons and experts in botany, together with the French Ambassador to Cameroon, Bruno Gain.

All the dignitaries who addressed the students referred to the course as very important and in accordance with the need of the hour, considering the prominence that biodiversity held to both human beings and animals. Staring the lecture that marked one of their very first lessons, an eminent Professor of Botany, Francis Hallé, focused on the importance of what tropical plants holds to botany and what the major differences are between the botany of the tropics from that of a temperate region.

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The Rector of the University of Dschang expressed his sincere thanks for having obtained the privilege to host a prestigious course like the BEVT. The French Ambassador on his part promised that his country would offer staunch support to guarantee that the project reaches its ultimate goal whatever it may be. The second batch is being called “Promotion Professeur Francis Hallé.”

The Masters course is the result of the “Sud Expert Plantes” project, an attempt of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Europe, which aims at offering assistance to the operations of emerging economies so that they can clearly learn, conserve and dispose, in a long lasting manner, knowhow on their plants. The five-year drive (2006-2011), spans across four regions across the globe, notably West and Central Africa, Indian Ocean and South East Asia.