About African Mountain Research Foundation
African Mountain Research Foundation is a UK based charity (Registered Charity Number: 1194644 ) set up to support scientific research and ecological infrastructure in mountain systems to enhance water security and biodiversity across Southern Africa.
Outside the Republic of South Africa, there is almost no high-elevation hydro-meteorological monitoring equipment in the region. This means that southern African scientists are forced to design their mountain restoration interventions using data and modelling provided by counterparts in the northern hemisphere. As a result, interventions are often inappropriate, and scientists from the region find it difficult to resist northern hemisphere restoration approaches which are often irrelevant (and likely harmful) to a southern African context.
AMRF buys and installs research equipment such as all-in-one weather stations (our preferred model is WX-Pro Campbell Scientific Fully featured Weather Station which costs £6000 per unit) in several locations in the following countries: Angola, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The objective is to create a network of monitoring equipment across southern African mountain systems which measure climate change, rainfall, wind speed, humidity and atmospheric pressure and generate valuable data for scientists working in the region; this data will be collated and distributed by the Afromontane Research Unit at the University of the Free State.
https://www.africanmountainresearch.com/
clara@africanmountainresearch.com
African Mountain Research Foundation Registered charity number 1194644
