I wondered why I never heard of hunting in Malawi after reading the previous post about Francis Colby.

The little I could find on the internet said it was closed to hunting. It seems like a great location.

I was wondering if anyone is trying to change the government's opinion?

Jim

There used to be a decent amount of hunting in Malawi. Especially the area south of the lake. Sometime after WWII, hunting started slowing down from what I have heard.

We used to have friends living in the northern part of Malawi that would come to southern Tanzania to hunt with us for meat, 50+ years ago. Birds and leopards were the main animals they had in their area if my memory is serving me correct.

I could be wrong but there may not even be any rules on the books concerning hunting. There is not much game outside the NP's, especially in the north. Malawi probably has the densest population in Africa. There isn't much room for animals.

There was an attempt at high fenced operation, but I haven't heard about it for 5-10 years.

I spent a year there back in 2005-2006 and traveled through most of the country. I never saw a single big game animal outside of the national parks. Very densely populated and incredibly poor. The orphanage that I was working at had to employ security guards to protect the small forest on the property from thieves that would steal wood to sell in the local market. Can't imagine trying to protect animals in that environment.

Thank you for the great information on Malawi.

MNR’s post was quite accurate. The human encroachment is just too severe so there’s hardly any space for big game animals. You’d have to go to the national parks. African Parks are managing Liwonde NP and Majete GR and have turned them into first class game viewing areas. I worked as a field guide in Majete for 2 years. I thought it was amazing.

Back in the days, before the population boomed, there used to be good hunting around Malawi. I believe it was Brian Herne who tried to make a living shooting crocodiles in Lake Malawi. John “Pondoro” Taylor lived and hunted a lot in Malawi and you can read about this in “A man called lion”.
PH Fred Duckworth I believe was a game warden there for a while and hunted a man eating lion on the Zomba Plateau in the south. Norman Carr did a lot of hunting, mainly for elephant I think, in southern Malawi in his early days.

few years ago ther'was an outfitter who offered crocs hunting in the lake

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Originally posted by Mario:
few years ago ther'was an outfitter who offered crocs hunting in the lake

That may have been Derek McPherson. Don't think it worked out long term.