CIVET

I have been back in the park for a couple of weeks now and my future is still not decided. I have support from many groups and have finance for my project so I am just waiting for a result.

This civet above is a regular visitor to my house and comes at all hours of the night. Other animals to visit the house are the genet, hippo and bush pigs.

The elephants are slowly starting to return to the dam and a few turn up nearly every day now. Birds have also started to return and there are black stork, yellow billed stork, yellow billed duck and spur winged geese.

The land rover is running fine after I rebuilt the engine and I have just fitted a new hand brake cable and prop shaft.

£5 TO FEED THESE 30 CHILDREN FOR 1 DAY

I bought a bag of maze for around `£5 in town and gave it these 30 children who live at the dormitory in Kasungu National park. Some are as young as 5 and have to fend for themselves most of the time. Their families live away in the park and are scouts protecting the park from poachers and encroachment. Regular supplies of food will mean they do not have to fish illegally in the park.
They have no mosquito nets and the dorm rooms have no glass in the windows which means if one get malaria they all get.
Please help me to help them.

3 weeks until project shuts down!

I have been working for 5 years in Kasungu National park in Malawi trying to conserve the wild dogs there. I am now being told I have to leave the park unless I can come up with substantial funding for the project. I have 3 weeks left before I have to leave. These are the only recorded dogs in the whole country and need your help now. Can you help in any way? I spend in the region of $20000 of my own money each year on this project and now need a co-sponsor to help me out. Once I leave the park it will be almost impossible to return. $10000 is all I need in kind. What are 2 packs of dogs worth??

BACK IN MALAWI

I arrived back in Malawi on time and will be staying in Lilongwe until I have sorted out the land rover. I have it running again as it was sitting unused for about 6 months and I have refitted the turbo and injectors that I had checked out in the UK. Oh Boy, it is still burning a lot of oil but I hope to cure that with the spares I bought in the UK. 

I am not sure when I will return to the game park but hope it will be soon.

There have been a few changes since I left, the biggest being the devaluation of the Kwacha. It has helped a bit but all it really means is that the prices have gone up by an equivalent amount. 

Fuel is now readily available every where and at about £1 per litre which is not too bad, however items like bread has doubled in price.

I have had some meetings with people out here and there might be some interesting opportunities for me in the near future. We will have to wait and see.

I hope you like the picture.