Olaf Weyl is Chief Scientist at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity and is affiliated to the Center for Invasion Biology. He is the southern African chair of the IUCN Freshwater Fish ...

Sometimes I choose my destinations and sometimes they choose me. Malawi was a little bit of both: first and foremost, there were some wonderful children that I needed to meet. However, as a lifelong ...

Lake Malawi accounts for more than 90% of landlocked Malawi’s total fish catch, and a key fishing ground is the water around Mbenje Island. The community here has since the 1950s practiced, and ...

In the second-largest lake in Africa, fish evolution is taking place at an explosive rate. Why? Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed in a valley where the African ...

Located at the southern end of the great expanse of Lake Malawi, with its deep, clear waters and mountain backdrop, the national park is home to many hundreds of fish species, nearly all endemic. Its ...

That unlikely phrase is used in some lakefront communities in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world where men catch the fish and women sell the catch to local customers. In Malawi, for ...