Biodiversity provides goods and services in the form of ecosystems, species and genetic resources for human well-being and economic development. Malawi is endowed with unique flora, fauna and ecosystems, which provide various ecosystem services such as food, shelter, medicine, energy ecological as well as cultural and spiritual services. The greatest diversity of species in Malawi is in protected areas, comprising 87 forest reserves, five national parks and four wildlife reserves and aquatic ecosystems that cover 20% of the total land area of Malawi. The highest diversity and endemism of aquatic life is found in Lake Malawi, the lake with the highest number of diversity of species on earth.