Liwonde National Park

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Harriet Nimmo –

Visited: July

Harriet is a zoologist with more than 20 years’ experience. She has the privilege of working with the world’s top wildlife photographers and photo-guides.

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Birder’s Paradise

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3/5

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Liwonde feels the most “African” of Malawi’s national parks with its beautiful setting along the Shire River, grunting hippos and easy to see herds of elephants. With its variety of habitats, including Borassus palm-studded floodplains, mopane woodlands and lagoons, Liwonde is a birder’s paradise. Specialities include brown-breasted barbet, Böhm’s bee-eater, Lillian’s lovebird and Livingstone’s flycatcher – and we managed to see both the Pel’s fishing owl and African skimmer on the same boat trip.

Liwonde faces big conservation challenges, as it is a relatively small park surrounded by huge numbers of impoverished people. Thankfully, the park has made incredible progress since the inspirational African Parks took over management in 2015. The positive impact has included training rangers, preventing illegal fishing, removing snares, fencing the entire park and helping empower local communities. African Parks has also overseen the reintroduction of plenty of wildlife, including lion, black rhino, cheetah and African wild dog. I have high hopes for the future of this beautiful national park.

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