African Parks land management plan for Malawi’s Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve
The Reserve’s parks manager David Nangoma laid out the land management strategy at a stakeholder meeting in Kasungu on Wednesday. African Parks draft plan for the 1,800 square kilometre Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve in Malawi is set to guide long-term interventions across ecology, infrastructure and tourism management, with stakeholders invited to provide input as the organisation reviews the implementation progress and challenges.
To bolster tourism, African Parks has invested in facilities including Navunde Stopover and Chipata Camp, alongside species reintroductions such as pangolins, pythons, vervet monkeys, servals and bushbucks. Ongoing threats – notably illegal gold mining as well as fence vandalism, chemical fishing, poaching and charcoal production – are being addressed in partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, which is working with the Ministry of Mining to support prosecutions in Kasungu.
Source: Nation Publications Limited
