The UK’s ambassador to Malawi has praised environmental conservation initiatives in Mmbelwa Kingdom, Mzimba district, during a visit to the Royal Palace at eDingeni. Her Excellency Leigh Stubblefield met King Mmbelwa V on Saturday, where she commended the monarch for guiding his subjects in protecting forest cover in the district. “The area looks beautiful with […]
Environmental sector stakeholders in Malawi have called on authorities and development partners to increase efforts to mobilise climate financing and sustainability programmes aimed at strengthening communities’ resilience to climate change. Speaking at a workshop on climate justice organised by the NCA-DCA Malawi Joint Country Programme, Alfred Kambwiri of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy […]
A community initiative aimed at building long term resilience to challenges brought by climate change has embarked on catchment restoration to provide ground cover around Linthipe catchment area on the outskirts of Lilongwe district. Residents hope the exercise supported by the National Local Government Finance Committee (NLGFC)’s Climate Smart Enhanced Public Works Program (EPWP) will […]
Malawi and its development partners have launched a $1.1million clean cooking fund to promote fuel efficient cooking technologies and alternative cooking energy in the country. Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources. Nancy Tembo said Wednesday in Lilongwe during the launch that the funds will provide financing to the innovative entrepreneurs that have creativity and business […]
Malawi Defense Force (MDF) has appealed to people of Mzimba to protect Perekezi Forest Reserve . Brigadier Laurence Mambo made the call on Wednesday at Perekezi Forest Reserve in the district where MDF soldiers from Moyale Barracks are patrolling the forest reserve as well as doing military exercises. Mambo, who is also 101 Brigade Commander, […]
Britain has reaffirmed its efforts to supporting Malawi in building advocacy and voice in line with environmental degradation. New British High Commissioner to Malawi, David Beer, told the media at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Tuesday after he presented his letters of credence to President Lazarus Chakwera. He said Malawi has suffered effects of climate […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has underpinned the need to implement environmental resilient interventions in order to tackle environmental shocks. Chakwera made the remarks on Monday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe during a Weekly Brief which focused on the environment. The President who was in the company of Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources, Nancy Tembo and […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed his administration’s commitment to step up efforts aimed at combating climate change and its effects on communities, announcing that government will launch a National Clean-up Day to ensure the country has sustainable environment management and waste disposal systems. Chakwera, who won a historic victory over Peter Mutharika in June, said […]
Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) has bemoaned the lack of policy direction on environmental protection in the maiden State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Lazarus Chakwera in Parliament last Friday. Leader of UDF in Parliament Nedson Poya said while government has showed commitment to, among other things reducing poverty and introducing compulsory […]
Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources Nancy Tembo has thrown her full weight of support to Lilongwe-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) called Save the Future Foundation in conserving environment through Kamtoletole Project. Teembo, who is also Lilongwe City South West Constituency member of Parliament, launched the project on Saturday in Area 22 o. “As an MP […]
In 2014, government, through the Department of Environmental Affairs, closed Sunseed Oil Company Limited in Lilongwe for endangering communities around it through careless disposal of factory waste. I don’t know, over the years, if Sunseed cleaned up after the closure but what I know is that the company was opened and resumed its production. Four […]
The Environmental Affairs Department has sealed Sunseed Oil Company in Lilongwe for allegedly discharging industrial waste into surrounding village’s gardens and onward to Nafutsa stream thereby endangering communities around it. The discharge is a disaster which was supposed to be contained and confined within the company premises, according to waste management laws and rules. The […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested two Chinese nationals from Qingdao Recycling company for manufacturing outlawed thin plastics. National police spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed of the arrest at Bunda Turn Off in the capital city. “We received a tip from the department of Environmental Affairs. We were working on the tip,” said Kadadzera. He […]
Zomba Forest Lodge, through its Reforestation of the Environment and Ecosystem of Zomba (TREEZ) project, has covered the entire length of Zomba Plateau’s Mulunguzi River as a water catchment conservation corridor of indigenous trees planted on Saturday. This will both help ensure the future of Zomba City’s water supply and will preserve a beautiful nature […]
Most parts of the country, especially the rural areas, are bare of trees because they are being rampantly cut down and converted into charcoal wood fuel and to curb this social ill, there a need to find alternative ways to economically empower people who depend on this thriving charcoal business. This was said by non-governmental […]
Plant more trees, conserve and enjoy the green environment, this was the central message at the maiden Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Greenfest held in Mulanje district. Initially, the initiative, aimed at enhancing efforts towards the conservation of the environment, was responding to President Arthur Peter Mutharika’s call to Malawians to restore and conserve the environment. […]
Malawi Broadcasting Station (MBC) Innovations Award winner on Environment, Getrude Mlanga is off to China for a month long training on environment and climate change. Mlanga, 25, who won the MBC Innovations Award in 2018 is the first one among all 2018 winners to travel to China for the training. In an interview before her […]
Youth Hub, a local youth organization which advocates for a clean planetary society, among other things, says it will soon begin to name and shame environmental pollutants in its effort to halt wanton pollution which has reached dangerous levels in towns and cities in this country. Patron of the organization, Humphreys Kapito, disclosed this when […]