Malawi is known as the "Warm Heart of Africa" due to the friendliness of the people there. Conservation efforts have also ...

Majete Wildlife Reserve is a protected area of 270 square miles of woodland and savannah in the Lower Shire Valley, a two-hour drive from Malawi's second city, Blantyre.

A bull elephant lumbers along the banks of the Shire River in Majete Wildlife Reserve in Malawi, home to the historic ‘500 Elephant’ translocation undertaken by African Parks.

Majete Wildlife Reserve to become Malawi’s only Big Five park. ... Located in southern Malawi’s Lower Shire Valley, the beautiful 70,000-hectare Majete was granted protected status in 1955, but ...

It’s a marked contrast to Majete’s history as a poachers’ paradise that left it virtually devoid of wildlife. In the late 1980s and 1990s, protecting wildlife was way down Malawi’s list of ...

Majete Wildlife Reserve, situated in Malawi’s lower Shire valley is well on its way to becoming a Big Five park, having undertaken a bold and inspiring wildlife reintroduction programme to ...

The message from Majete Wildlife Reserve in southern Malawi is that ecosystems in Africa can be rewilded, ... Giant trees line the streams and the Shire River, which flows along its boundary.

Among them is the Majete Wildlife Reserve in the southwestern part of the country, where the roar of lions can be heard along with the rapids of the Shire River. The waters are packed with pods of ...

Three lions were moved to Majete from South Africa in 2012, and have now spawned a population estimated to be above 70, joining dozens of other species in a park once denuded of wildlife.

In only eight years, South African NGO African Parks Network reintroduced over 2,500 animals in the sprawling Majete Wildlife Reserve. Thursday, July 10, 2025 News ...

The re-introduction of a lion population will once again give it Big Five-status – a boast no other park in Malawi can make.

In only eight years, South African NGO African Parks Network reintroduced over 2,500 animals in the sprawling Majete Wildlife Reserve. Reserve resurrected by ‘Noah’s Ark’ project Home Page ...