In Africa, wildlife in general is suffering. Our endemic Meyers Parrots of Malawi can still be seen on the odd day in the garden, eating fruit from the trees or hassling the neighbours dogs.
When you drive the landscape here, its beauty is overwhelming and the poverty staggering. However, in Malawi we have seen a success in conservation and are among few countries (if any others) that have an almost overpopulation of elephants!
The problems and solutions to what we see here is above my pay grade but we try to do what we can. We have a charcoal replacement briquette we market for cooking as our beautiful continent is becoming devoid of trees. But people need to cook. What to do? Fuel briquettes made of leaves, grass, corn stalk cast offs is a start. We need so much more!
But good things are happening. We keep trying.
End of soapbox moment.
