BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost) – The Blantyre Magistrate Court this week, sentenced 35 foreigners and Malawians to 18 and 12 months with hard labor, respectively for illegal logging in Lengwe National Park, in the Lower Shire district of Chikhwawa.

The convicts are two Chinese, 23 Mozambicans, and ten Malawians who were found guilty on three counts of entering into a protected area; conveying, possessing, and using prohibited weapons; and disturbing indigenous species in a protected area.

According to the Court records, the convicts were caught extracting Mopani trees from the National Park and exporting them to Mozambique for sale. Continue reading Over 30 foreign nationals and Malawians jailed for encroaching at Lengwe National Park →