The Challenge

You can be part of a team exploring the remotest regions of the beautiful Nyika National Park in northern Malawi, Central Africa.

You can assist by engaging in large mammal tracking and making assessments of their relative abundance to contribute to the expanding record base.

You can help with plant collections and identifications, entomological projects, small mammal collections or any one of a host of other research projects in which you have a particular interest. You may choose to conduct your own research work as many have done in the past, producing authoritative documentation of new species and extending the knowledge base of the Nyika National Park flora and fauna.

By supporting this work you are helping to provide the logistical back-up to enable the game scouts, with whom you will be working on a daily basis, do their difficult job of law enforcement and game management.

This park has an area of over 3000 square kilometres . However, what makes it really tough is the altitudinal range of 2000 m from the highest peak to the lower areas nearer to the lake shore. What makes it even tougher still for the Parks department is that they have insufficient staff to patrol more than a small part of the area. So for months, and even for years on end, parts remain unvisited and unknown. What a challenge to be literally the first person to sit on a grassy knoll and view some of Africa's most dramatic scenery!

Only our considerable experience , with the support and back-up from the Parks and Wildlife staff and a committed and well-lead team can do this. This is a great challenge which will reward those who can rise to it with a real adventure - a real expedition experience that can only be achieved on foot. You will thus be spending a substantial part of your trip completely removed from any form of civilisation, African or European.