Skelmwater Resarch plot is visited every year to collect annual growth measurements. This time the plot was visited twice. In May to show the research plot to Nathan Clemes and Amber Numamoto who support the ecological research done by the Baobab Foundation. The second visit in June was with Mr Georg von dem Bussche who for many years measured the research plot during the 1980ies and 1990ies.
The late rains meant that many of the trees had not yet lost their leaves and that had maintained their circumference size. We also noticed that many trees had fresh nibble marks on the lower trunk, from the height above the ground we concluded that most of the nibbling was done by Porcupine.
