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Ms. Mecklina Michael is a Tutorial Assistant in Entomology at the Department of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation within the College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam. She has been a member of staff at UDSM since 2019. She holds a B.S degree in Wildlife Management (2013-2016) from the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka. She recently graduated her MSc. degree in Life Sciences specialty Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management (2019-2021) from the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha.

Her areas of interests include entomology, biodiversity management, ecological inventories, community based natural resources management, protected area planning, and wildlife law enforcement and anti-poaching. She has participated in a number of practical trainings in biodiversity resource inventories, protected area planning, environmental education and many others. She has also carried out research project on insects pollinators, invasive species ecology and management and on animal inventory.