Supporting Mulanje

Following the collapse of tourism, unemployed tourism workers are struggling to cope and turning to the mountain's dwindling woodland resources to survive. 

The Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust has identified a number of projects that will employ people who have lost their livelihoods to help conserve Malawi's natural resources.  This includes setting up high altitude nurseries operated by hut watchmen. 

Thanks to support for Watson's Malawi Partnership, we have been able to help them fund some new seedlings, scheduled for planting in the next couple of months. And all with the assistance of Francis, who will be well-known to anyone who has joined us for one of our annual Malawi visits.

We hope to develop our partnership with The Mulanje Mountain Conservation as part of our ambition to offset all WMP-related travel emissions when we can next meet up. As soon as we possibly can.

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