African Parks, in partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), and with support from the Dutch Government, the Lion Recovery Fund and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation on Thursday completed series of Lion translocations from South Africa to Malawi. Wild Lions have been reintroduced to Liwonde National Park two decades after a breeding […]
Malawi Police say they have now engaged their counterparts in Zambia to track down a lion said to be roaming in Chitipa. Chitipa police spokesperson Gladwell Simwaka said the lion, which has since killed six cattle and wounded three people in Chitipa seems to have gone back to Zambia where it came from. “We have […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has suspended sensitization and civic education for the voter registration exercise in Chitipa because of lions scare in the border district. MEC district elections officer Michael Mkandawire said the most affected area is chief Kameme’s area which also covers most parts of Chitipa north and central constituencies. “The voter registration civic […]
A stray lion believed to have escaped from Zambia’s Lwangwa Game Reserve is on rampage in Malawi’s northern district of Chitipa killing six cattle in the process. Chitipa Police publicist Gladwell Simwaka said the lion had been spotted at Muluka and Sopelera in Kameme where it killed three cattle. He also said the wild’s most […]
Government seems to be giving up on a marauding lion which is terrorising Bunya and Therere villages in Nsanje, saying it is using Lengwe Game Reserve as its attack launchpad, making it difficult to kill it. Director of Parks and Wildlife Brighton Kunchedwa said this 10 days after game rangers were deployed in Bunya and […]
Government is warning people in Nkhotakota to be careful of a roaming lion that has escaped from Nkhotakota Game Reserve on Saturday, the second of such an incident in the country within a week. Director of Parks and Wildlife Brighton Kunchedwa confirmed five lions escaped from the game reserve and four have been driven back […]
A wildlife expert has said the three roaming lions spotted in Kasungu recently might have come from Zambia and have gone back. Africa Parks chief executive officer Patricio Ndadzera said Kasungu National Park and Nkhotakota Game Reserve have no lions at the moment. “We take it that these three lions are a family. They might […]
Malawi Police has sounded the alert over lions on the loose in Kasungu in the Central Region tobacco growing district of Malawi, believed to have escaped from Kasungu National Park and are wondering about in some areas of the district. Kasungu Police spokesperson Edna Mzingwitsa said the lions had been spotted in two different places, […]
He might be regarded as one of the finest actors on the scene, but Thlupego Chisiza has also proved to be a man too smooth between his legs, if latest news is anything to go by. Chisiza has dumped his wife of four years Bertha Philip and opted for an actress Sharon Mathala who happens […]