Research and education at the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre in Tanzania

Are you engaged in research or education in a tropical setting that would benefit from a field station with research and teaching facilities?

Then, join us on the 6th of February to delve into the potential research and educational opportunities offered by the Natural History Museum of Denmark co-managed field station — the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre.

At the meeting, Nikolaj Scharff from The Natural History Museum of Denmark will introduce the field station, the area, the activities, and the potential for research and education.

Please register here.
This meeting is open to all researchers at the University of Copenhagen.

About the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre - A Field Station in Tanzania

The Natural History Museum of Denmark is co-managing a field station in Southern Tanzania, on the border to the Udzungwa Mountains National Park. The station was established in 2006 and is owned by the Tanzania National Park Authority (TANAPA). The mission of the field station is to promote and facilitate biological research and monitoring, as well as increase our knowledge of the outstanding biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains. UEMC also supports environmental education and, in general, efforts to increase people’s awareness and appreciation of the park.

Since its establishment, the field station has hosted more than 300 researchers and has been running monitoring programs (botany and zoology) in selected forest areas for more than a decade to create long-term data on the status of biodiversity in selected forest areas. The field station also conducts environmental education in several schools in the area, provides technical assistance to the park to boost ecological monitoring, conducts or facilitates training programs (capacity building), and facilitates international research programs.

The Udzungwa Mountains is part of a biodiversity hotspot in East Africa, and researchers from the Natural History Museum of Denmark have been active there since 1968. Little is known about the biodiversity, but two new large primates (Mangabeys) have been discovered and described from these forests within the last 40 years. Such discoveries show how little we know about these forests. The field station is located in a heavily populated strip of land sandwiched between two national parks – The Udzungwa Mountains National Park (rainforest) and The Selous Game Reserve (savannah).