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Economic Plants in Lengwe National Park and Majete wildlife Reserve
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2024 Feb 02Countries

Malawi
Lengwe National Park is located in Chikwawa and about 40 miles southwest of Blantyre. The Park has open deciduous and dense thickets of forests.
Majete Wildlife Reserve in Chikwawa and has served as a nature reserve since 1955, but reportedly "was a wildlife sanctuary in name only" by 2002. During the late 1970s and 1980s, charcoal burning, logging, and poaching decimated the area's wildlife, leaving few games other than antelope.
Majete Wildlife Reserve occupies an area of 270 sq mi (700 sq km) whilst Lengwe is 350 sq miles (900 sq km) in area.
The objective of the assignment was to develop an inventory of plants of economic importance, especially those that are targeted for charcoal making.
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