WAGI - Wildlife Action Group International e.V. - Urgently needed roads in Thuma Forest Reserve, Malawi


Urgently need roads in Thuma Forest Reserve Looking for business partners! Sponsor a scout! © WAGI Webdesign		We help people to protect nature! 20 years in nature conservation are our reference Finance a road in Thuma Forest Reserve and we give it your chosen name! No roads - no tourism - no income! The Thuma Forest Reserve has to become self-sufficient! Therefore, more tourists have to visit Thuma regularly! Due to shortage of funds, only the old main - dirt road to the Administration-Camp and up to the plateau in the center of the Forest Reserve are still passable, but only with four-wheel drive vehicles. All other roads are overgrown or eroded and no more usable. We need to construct about 74 km of road! Estimated costs: 36.000.- Euro Our principal: We don't want to use any machines! Construction and maintenance of the roads shall give the people from the surrounding villages work and income. Picture: Albert Schenk pays workers from the villages. With 3.500 Euro you will sponsor 7,5 km of road in the Thuma Forest Reserve. Thereafter 250 Euro per year for another 3 years for the maintenance of the road. Therefore the part of the road you sponsored will be named as you wish, for example Musterman-Drive or after a company-name. For every more year you sponsor the road-maintenance, the road will remain in your given name. You will receive a Certificate of sponsorship and a detailed map of Thuma Forest Reserve in which your road will be marked and with GPS-data. A signpost with your chosen name will mark the distance or road you have sponsord. Of course can you also support the road construction project with smaller donations! Lets' do it! Click here to support the road project in Thuma! OUR GOALS: 1) To rehabilitate and upgrade the existing roads within two years, so a saloon car may be able to use them (See the black marked line on the left map above). 2) To extend the road network, so that visitors can reach the most interesting and beautiful areas of Thuma Forest Reserve by 4x4 vehicle (See the red marked line on the right map above). The extended road network will also contribute towards more efficient control of poaching and illegal cutting of trees and bamboo in the reserve. Or would you prefer to support the construction of better accommodation for the staff? Or sponsor a scout ? Or help us to to find a market for handicrafts of the local artisans? Thuma Forest Reserve has to become an asset for Malawi and generate income for the local communities. Otherwise poaching and the plundering of the natural resources will continue. Become an active member or supporter of the WILDLIFE ACTION GROUP INTERNATIONAL		We will construct your sponsored road here: An experience: the Thuma Forest Reserve View over the centre plateau toward Lake Malawi The old hospital built in 1902 Rock cave with stone age paintings

Urgently need roads in Thuma Forest Reserve

Looking for business partners!

Sponsor a scout!

We help people to protect nature!

20 years in nature conservation are our reference

Finance a road in Thuma Forest Reserve

and we give it your chosen name!

No roads - no tourism - no income!

The Thuma Forest Reserve has to become self-sufficient! Therefore, more tourists have to visit Thuma regularly!

Due to shortage of funds, only the old main - dirt road to the Administration-Camp and up to the plateau in the center of the Forest Reserve are still passable, but only with four-wheel drive vehicles. All other roads are overgrown or eroded and no more usable.

We need to construct about 74 km of road!

Estimated costs: 36.000.- Euro

Our principal:

We don't want to use any machines! Construction and maintenance of the roads shall give the people from the surrounding villages work and income.

Picture: Albert Schenk pays workers from the villages.

With 3.500 Euro you will sponsor 7,5 km of road in the Thuma Forest Reserve.

Thereafter 250 Euro per year for another 3 years for the maintenance of the road.

Therefore the part of the road you sponsored will be named as you wish, for example Musterman-Drive or after a company-name.

For every more year you sponsor the road-maintenance, the road will remain in your given name.

You will receive a Certificate of sponsorship and a detailed map of Thuma Forest Reserve in which your road will be marked and with GPS-data. A signpost with your chosen name will mark the distance or road you have sponsord.

Of course can you also support the road construction project with smaller donations!

Lets' do it!

Click here to support the road project in Thuma!

OUR GOALS:

1) To rehabilitate and upgrade the existing roads within two years, so a saloon car may be able to use them (See the black marked line on the left map above).

2) To extend the road network, so that visitors can reach the most interesting and beautiful areas of Thuma Forest Reserve by 4x4 vehicle (See the red marked line on the right map above).

The extended road network will also contribute towards more efficient control of poaching and illegal cutting of trees and bamboo in the reserve.

Or would you prefer to support the construction of better accommodation for the staff?

Or sponsor a scout ?

Or help us to to find a market for handicrafts of the local artisans?

Thuma Forest Reserve has to become an asset for Malawi and generate income for the local communities. Otherwise poaching and the plundering of the natural resources will continue.

Become an active member or supporter of the

WILDLIFE ACTION GROUP INTERNATIONAL

We will construct your sponsored road here:

An experience: the Thuma Forest Reserve

View over the centre plateau toward Lake Malawi

The old hospital built in 1902

Rock cave with stone age paintings