Aloe aloe

What have we here then?

Well, in a discussion with a key partner today about the biomonitoring work we’re hoping to ramp up at our Chimanimani project site, we realised for the last year, the rangers have been collecting data on a random species of aloe, not on the target species which has the Latin name olea chimanimani. Not a mass breakout of dyslexia, but likely completely insufficient training and guidance. It means the target species chosen for its ability to point to conservation success, or not, lacks data, and the collection needs to start from scratch. I’m pulled in too many directions to get to Chimanimani regularly so I’m hoping I can carve out time in the near future as these issues are much easier to solve in person.

Maputo in the evening received a rain shower. I was sheltering here for a while and it almost felt like a foggy rainstorm in small town Black Forest Germany, save for the bags of trash and Portuguese lettering on the building opposite.