Breaking News: Sokoke Pipit spotted at Pugu
Not easy to understand that with the present status of the Pugu Forest still globally endangered species are found like the recent spotting of the Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis)
Few remaining Rondo Dwarf Galago
The secretive and almost extinct Rondo Dwarf Galago is still a regular visitor of the Pugu Hills Nature Centre. At night from your bed in the banda you may hear it calling.
Children without Nature
The publishing of an article about the worrying absence of Nature in the life of upgrowing children in the UK is not only a warning relevant in Europe
Pugu Hills Closed
We are sorry to inform our customers that Pugu Hills Nature Centre will be closed during the rainy season for maintenance.
Pugu Plastic Forest Reserve
A Trash Art Work in the making at Pugu Hills Nature Centre symbolising the struggle of Humans against Nature! Will humans manage to win and bury nature in its trash?Climate at Pugu
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The German colonial government still had the opportunity to move their residence for half of the year from Dar es Salaam to Lushoto, at the time the humidity and heat at the coast becomes unbearable. The graph below shows the annual cycle of hot and often humid months especially directly along the coast and during the short rains.
Pugu Hills is having less humidity and the short trip from town to pugu already changes your mood as soon as you start climbing the hills and the air cools down and the humidity starts dropping.
During a few months blankets can be required in Pugu at the time the aircos are still blasting in Masaki. What also influences the humidity in Pugu and clearly has its impact on the Pugu Forest is the dramatic drop of annual precipitation. Since the millenium the rains become less, although a slight improvement was noticed the last two years. Not only the recover of the Forest (in case the human activities can be controlled) will become difficult in the absence of adequate rains, but also bush fires which occured in the forest for for the first time two years back around the centre, become an additional thread.
While Kisarawe (Pugu Forest) used to have the highest annual precipitation in Dar es Salaam during the previous century, with values in the range of 1,400 mm per annum, this advantage has been lost with the ongoing climate change. An estimated 889 mm annual precipitation is provided for the period 1981 - 2009. Which figure dropped to 815 mm for the period 2000 - 2009.
source globalspecies.org
