Registered UK Charity No 1194644 Facilitating research & restoration across the mountain systems of southern Africa to safeguard biodiversity & water security
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Work has begun on our new residential Field Research Centre on Mount Mulanje in Malawi. A brilliant effort by so many people - all the equipment (several tonnes) had to be carried up by hand. #Research #ClimateAction #Malawi
Fascinating lecture @RGS_IBG by the inspirational Dr Callum Munday @UniofOxford about his project to gather met observations in South Africa, Zambia & Kenya, using weather balloons. Proud to be providing high elevation data across the region #ClimateActionNow
Great to have @drsteveboyes explorer, conservation biologist &ornithologist speaking at our conference next year SAMC2025. He's dedicated his life to conserving Africa’s wilderness and launched @NatGeoExplorers Wilderness Project, exploring & protecting the Angolan highlands
Annual maintenance at our Nyika Plateau site...Great to be providing our data to the team at Nyika National Park for their conservation work. 🙌
Happy to report that all is in good order on Mount Mulanje after our annual service despite the extreme weather the station has to endure at 1890 metres 🙌🙌 if you want access to any of the data 📊 📈 from our sites please visit our website. africanmountainresearch.com/…
Excited to install our new AWS at QwaQua Campus
@ufsweb at the base of the Maloti-Drakensberg! Our first in 🇿🇦 and first in an "elevation transect" of 5 stations (highest at 3,050m) to compare weather data from top to bottom. #Mountains #ClimateChange #Weather #researchtips
The count down has begun for our 2nd Southern African Mountain Conference in March '25 @ChampagneSports. Gutted that the amazing @stevebackshall will be filming so can't be with us in the Maloti-Drakensberg. To book your place click here: 2025.samc.africa/ #Deadly60 @cbbc
Looking at adding some more high elevation sites to our portfolio with the collaboration of the @UFSweb very exciting to be at the top of the Maloti-Drakensberg 3,069 m high at the head of the Namahadi Pass #africanmountainresearch
Great to welcome Prof Alistair Clulow
@AlistairCl67818 who has joined our team as Chief Technical Advisor 👏 Alistair has worked as an expert with environmental monitoring equipment for 20 years + and brings a wealth of expertise with him @UKZN We're lucky to have him!
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Published today Nature Scientific Reports a new ecoregion for Africa for the mountains of southern Malawi / Northern Mozambique - the South East Africa Montane Archipelago (SEAMA). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-5… Proud to have coordinated 20+ years of field work to make this possible
Brilliant article on the Impact of the invasive alien plant Vernonanthura polyanthes - commonly known as Bee bush written by one of our very talented post grad students Lameck Kachena. Wellworth a read 🙌🙌
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Our hydro met station in Nyanga National Park now fully serviced and ready to go! 🙌🙌 @Campbellsci_Af
Completing a much needed service at our Bvumba hydro met station yesterday replacing worn out bearings, wiring and sensors...all looking good now 🙌@seldomseencottages #africanmountainresearch @Campbellsci_Af
🏔 Happy #InternationalMountainDay! 📷 Let's celebrate restoring mountain ecosystems—crucial for #ClimateChange adaption & vital to life. #MountainsMatter #OurChangingMountains
#IMD2023 @UNmountains
Do you know that forests cover 39% of the worlds mountains? Mountain forests & grasslands
⛰️cool local temperatures
⛰️increase water retention
⛰️store carbon
⛰️reduce risk of erosion & landslides
Let’s recognize the importance of our mountain ecosystems #MountainsMatter #IMD2023
What an inspiring talk by @Schafernaker last night at @DauntseysSchool highlighting the significance of weather data, and the range of hydro-met sources in UK. Proud to be building southern Africa’s only network of high elevation weather stations! @Campbellsci_Af
Fantastic meeting with Shingi, Tinasche and Lameck to hear about the projects they are developing after their Manica Highlands research trip, protecting this precious area and the biodiversity in it 🙌thank you @waterfallmaniac and @UFSweb
xitter.cf/jimalkhalili/status/17… Listen to this episode of #TheLifeScientific 👆with the brilliant Prof Alex Antonelli talking to @jimalkhalili about mountains - 1/8 of the earths surface are covered in mountains and they comprise 1/3 of all different species @KewScience #biodiversity
My guest on #TheLifeScientific today is Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science at Kew Gardens.
Last in the current run. Back on 31 Oct.
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