President Professor Peter Mutharika Saturday led state house residents, Beautify Malawi Trust (BEAM) and Lilongwe City Council in trees planting within the road from Kamuzu Palace to parliament building. Speaking after planting trees, Mutharika said the exercise was also part of BEAM as trees help in beautifying the country. Explained Mutharika, “This is my house […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has warned all those stealing government drugs and sell to private markets that his government will mete out the harshest measures so as to ensure that ordinary people benefit fully from government services. He was speaking at Masasa Primary School ground in Ntcheu where he presided over this year’s official launch […]
Chitipa District Commissioner, Grace Zione Chirwa finished 2015 calendar year in a style as she led a delegation which comprising district council sector heads, local NGOs representatives, councillors and members from business community in joining officials from Ileje District in Tanzania in a special tree planting exercise, Thursday , December 31. The exercise which took place at the bank of […]
Impoverished villagers are hacking down Malawi’s forests to make charcoal, undeterred by government efforts to confiscate the dirty fuel as a power deficit stokes demand. Only 9 percent of the southern African country’s population have access to electricity, ensuring a good market for the charcoal produced by communities living near forests. The fuel is sold mainly […]
Communities in the area of Traditional Authority Chimaliro in Thyolo district have hailed Malawi’s premier mobile service provider TNM for the initiative of restoring forests in the country. TNM annually undertakes tree planting exercises in line with one of its CSR policy pillars that strive to create sustainable environment and these year the company intends […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has planted over 5,000 trees during an exercise at all its stations countrywide. MRA Commissioner General Raphael Kamoto said they are mandated to assess, collect and account tax revenue, but as a responsible Corporate Citizen, the taxmen are now also very interested in caring for the general society and environment as well. […]
Blantyre City Council has warned residents against cultivating in protected areas such as hills and along streams saying this was posing danger to people’s lives and property. Speaking on Friday when he presided over tree planting exercise in Nyambadwe Hill organized by Sunbird TourismLimited, Blantyre City Mayor Noel Chalamanda said this should be the last […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of education responsible for secondary education Thokozile Banda has commended Airtel Malawi for the donation of 6,000 seedlings to the ministry. Banda made the remarks in Lilongwe on Tuesday when Airtel handed over the seedlings donation. She said Ministry of education wrote different organisations asking them to assist with seedlings […]
Alliance One Tobacco, a multinational tobacco company has spent US$1 million (about K480 million ) in tree planting exercise. This was disclosed on Friday when the company was winding up the tree planting exercise at its newly acquired Mpale Estate, in Madisi, Dowa, which the company launched during the onset of the rain season. Company Leaf Director, […]
Airtel Malawi Limited in partnership with the Evangelical Church of Malawi Youth in Action Organisation on Friday challenged Bangwe residents to take the tree planting initiative seriously to restore the broken environment in the area. Airtel Malawi Head of Enterprise Business Rachael Majiga said her company which provided 850 indigenous seedlings, takes pride to partner […]
The global headlines over the past few weeks have been filled with tales of the disastrous floods that have been sweeping the country. Lives have been lost, homes and crops have been destroyed, and vast swathes of landlie underwater.It would be ignorant to pass off these terrible losses as a result ofthe heavy downfalls from […]
Appalled by the rate people are attacking Forest Reserves in the country, the Malawi will through its Chief Secretary to government George Mkondiwa lead the nation in a tree planting exercise at the Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, in Lilongwe, this Saturday. Official statistics show that trees lost in a year at the Dzalanyama Forest Reserve is […]
Members from Rotary Club of Lilongwe on Tuesday afternoon took time off their busy schedules to take part in a tree planting exercise along the new tarmac road connecting Mchinji and Paul Kagame roads’ roundabouts. The exercise, according to president of the club Sophie Kalinde is part of an environmental project the organization has been running for the […]
The Forestry Department says it plans to plant about 60 million trees nationwide during this tree planting season spanning from December 15 2014 to April 15 this year. Deputy-director of forestry, Thomas Makhambera, said the department has managed to produce over 60 million trees on customary land, plantation and forest reserve areas. Makhambera said this during a […]
Network of Climate Journalists, a grouping of media practitioners with interests in conserving the environment in the country, on Tuesday spared time on their busy schedule to plant hybrid Mango trees at Ulaya village in Senior Chief Mpama’s area in the southern district of Chiradzulu. The tree planting exercise was also in line with ‘Make Malawi Green’, […]
Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) students, Lilongwe campus, last week Saturday took time off their books and went on a tree planting campaign at Chembe village in the eastern district of Mangochi. The students joined different stakeholders advocating tree planting exercise as a way of addressing some of the environmental challenges facing Malawi, which seeks […]
Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) party says it is committed give a new face to its youths by encouraging them to a leading role in national development activities. The party’s new Secretary-General Kandi Padambo said this at a tree planting ceremony in Ndirande, Blantyre organized by the ‘Yellow Youth for Change’ a youth group […]
President Joyce Banda on Saturday said it is everyone’s responsibility to plant trees to mitigate the impact of climate change that has had adverse effects on people’s lives. President Banda said this during the launch of 2012/2013 national tree planting season at Kasinjeni village along the river banks of Dwangwa in Kasungu. The President said […]