MALAWI ~ Kasungu National Park ~

... Great new African National Park to add to my collection💚...  the landscape consists of woodland and bush, grassland and low-rising hills, small lakes and wide marshy areas with rampant rivers in the rainy season... the park was once home to around 1,200 elephants in the 1970s but rampant poaching over the years reduced the population to a mere 49 by 2015... the International Fund for Animal Welfare has been working in Kasungu since 2015 to address law enforcement, wildlife crime, infrastructure and capacity within the park... by reducing poaching in the park, the elephant population has grown to an estimated 120 individuals... in 2022, 263 elephants were moved from Liwonde National Park  to the much larger Kasungu Park... while the move sounded like a good idea on paper, the elephants' new home was not fenced... immediately, they began wandering out of the park - destroying property, eating crops and killing people in both Malawi and Zambia... several years later, this terrible situation is still not resolved...  so time has proved that translocating wild elephants isn't always the best option... Thanks Emmanuel!【ツ】

Kasungu stretches along the Zambian border and is Malawi’s second largest national park covering approximately 2,000 square kilometres. (which is four times the size of Liwonde National Park). It is located in the central region and rises about 1000 meters above sea level and was established in 1970.

 

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