From left, João Eduardo, Chailete Dias, Pedro Vontade, and Teresa Mange
Story/photos by Janado Nazare Cher
Biodiversity continues to be the answer to various sustainable development challenges and, in order to ensure this sustainability, people need to be willing to protect nature, restore damaged ecosystems and, above all, establish a balance in their relationship with the planet. That’s why, every year, the Science Department has been training young people from different parts of the Sustainable Development Zone.
In 2025, four new trainees —João Eduardo, Chailete Dias, Pedro Vontade, and Teresa Mange—joined the Science class: two boys and two girls, with the aim of taking part in an intensive one-year internship, during which they will have access to theoretical and practical lessons, preparing them to enter higher education and take courses in areas that can help with nature conservation in the future.
Topics such as the ecology of plants and animals, soil and its components, water and aquatic organisms have been important focuses for the trainees’ learning.
The trainees also have the opportunity to be in contact with different researchers and scientists from Mozambique and other parts of the world who come to Gorongosa to carry out their studies.