Tribute: Octave Wiehe: Pioneering Research by One of the 'Fathers of Mauritian Ecology'

At the entrance of the Réduit campus stands the Octave Wiehe auditorium. Do all the students who graduate there know who this botanist and plant pathologist was, who dedicated so much to research? He is credited with the rise of the Mauritius Sugarcane Industry Research Institute, where he served as the first director from 1953 to 1968, before becoming the vice-chancellor of the University of Mauritius from 1968 to 1973. A heartfelt tribute was paid to him...