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Lake Malaŵi National Park must never be exploited as a solution towards that predicament. Poorly regulated and uncontrolled fishing is certainly a step in the wrong direction in preserving the lake’s viability. The lake’s cichlid diversity is not a resource that can be measured or controlled. Conservation is the only option — indeed a difficult mission.

For many years now the Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary has been a controversial resource with the care of the area and its captive animals having being left in the hands of an under-resourced National Parks and Wildlife Service and a group of local good hearted citizens.The facility was initially developed to provide an important environmental resource to those individuals. Read More

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This park is 350 sq miles (900 sq km) in extent, south of Majete and 50 miles (80km) from Blantyre. The vegetation is thicket, with some deciduous woodland and more dense tree growth along the stream courses. The eastern area is quite flat, allowing for a good and well marked network of driveable tracks.                                                Read More

Although only 220 sq miles (580 sq km), Liwonde is perhaps the most popular of all the game parks. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Blantyre and only more than half that distance from the hotels on the southern lakeshore. Additionally, game viewing is enhanced because the River Shire flows along its western border.  Read More

Of this disease. We found the lake’s bilharzia currently restricted to the Chembe Village area at Cape Maclear but fear that over-fishing all around the lake may introduce this disease also at other shores.The unique fish fauna of Lake Malaŵi is an extremely important component of the world’s biological inventory. Biological diversity,      Read More

In the late 1980’s the last remaining black rhinoceros disappeared from the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve in the lower Shire River Valley of Malawi.  Poaching, together with a human population explosion has caused Malawi’s environmental degradation and allowed for land encroachment into its Parks and Reserves.               Read More