Malawi’s wildlife success story – A Luxury Travel Blog : A Luxury Travel Blog

It’s a rare day that a country in Africa gets to boast about its conservation success stories and certainly not significant and major ones – but Malawi’s recent story is one that can be celebrated! Since the coalition between African Parks and the Malawi government’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife, Malawi’s wildlife has gone from strength to strength, and has subsequently benefited the local communities around the parks as well as the economy as a whole.

African Parks have put a strong emphasis on educating and involving local communities when they implement new projects in order to have the support from them in their efforts. When they first came to Malawi, in some of the parks, much of the wildlife had been poached and was almost wiped out. Finding more snare wires than animals in Liwonde, the task at hand was not an easy one. With education on overfishing and poaching, as well as job creation, African Parks were able to…