Sebastian Chuwa, Tanzanian botanist and conservationist, was honoured as recipient of an Associate Laureate award by the Rolex Awards for Enterprise committee at The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, England. The award was given to support his conservation work for the African blackwood, the national tree of Tanzania. The Blackwood, or mpingo, is used internationally to manufacture woodwind instruments and is becoming threatened due to overharvestin.
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