 Additionally, research results from Gobabeb support the "Kuiseb Basin Management Committee" to undertake its integrated land and water management program.In 2010, the "Namib Ecological Restoration and Monitoring Unit" ("NERMU") was established at Gobabeb to address the issue of expanding uranium mining and prospecting within the Namib desert.To date, "NERMU" has researched or is researching the impact of mining and prospecting on the "Hartmann's Mountain Zebra", the "Husab Sand Lizard", "hypolithic cyanobacteria" and other organisms.