On The Ground in Malawi: Partners

From Universities to Ministries

The project relies heavily on the collaboration between national and international institutions. Cooperating partners include the following:

• Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Malawi Ministry of Health 
• Malawi Ministry of Tourism 
• Malawi Department of Fisheries 
• Malawi Department of National Parks and Wildlife 
• University of Malawi, Bunda College 
• University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science 
• School of Forestry, University of Pennsylvania 
• Helsinki University of Art and Industrial Design (graphics Dept. UIAH) 
• The Danish Bilharzia Laboratory (DBL) 
• U.S Peace Corps 
• Dr. Ad Konings, Zoologist of the Cichlid Press 
• Central African Wilderness Safaris (CAWS) 
• Liwonde Park Endangered Species Circle 
• Chembe Village Natural Resources Committee
  

Each partner is lending their expertise to wildlife conservation, to the protection of endangered species and natural resources, while also addressing the economic and healthy well-being of the surrounding communities of the two national parks, Lake Malawi NP and Liwonde NP.