Mazumbai Forest Reserve has served as a location for field practical training and research activities by local and foreign students, staff and researchers since 1984. Popular research fields include botany, forestry, zoology and other sciences, with a special emphasis on tropical forest ecology.
Since 1995, the forest reserve has maintained a partnership with the School for International Training (S.I.T.), a programme based in the United States of America (U.S.A.) that offers field-based study abroad experiences for undergraduate university students. Mazumbai has been a site for the students to conduct field practical research and complete independent study projects (ISPs). There have been more than 100 ISP projects, now memorialized at the Mazumbai library, since the S.I.T. programme started.
Camping on the lawn at Mazumbai. Attr: Elena Durazo