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The Nyika Vwaza (UK) Trust

Working for environmental & wildlife conservation in Northern Malawi

News

It is important for NVT to share news with its supporters – to update them on our activities and to keep them abreast of other conservation activities and concerns in Malawi. We do this through three channels – our lecture evening, newsletter and via this website.

Lecture Evening

We hold a lecture evening each year. As part of this event we give a brief overview of our activities over the last year and future plans. The last event was held on 16th October 2025:

NVT Event 16 October 2025- 6.30pm at the Union Jack Club, London SE1

This year our speaker was Jonny Hanson, former trustee of NVT UK and an environmental social scientist who is studying whether we could and whether we should share our landscapes with apex predators such as lynx, wolves
and bears. His book on that subject has just been published.

Jonny had many fascinating experiences to share. He set up and managed Northern Ireland’s first community farm. He was raised between Malawi and Ireland, and has a PhD in snow leopard conservation from the University of Cambridge. And he is developing his own conservation gin brand called Malawi Mountain© Gin.

In addition there was a short update on Nyika-Vwaza UK Trust activities and time after Jonny’s talk to network with old and new friends with an interest in Malawi.

Newsletter

The Nyika-Vwaza Trust issues two newsletters a year – these are sent to all registered supporters. To see the current Newsletter (Autumn 2025) please click here Newsletter Issue 41

If you would like to read back copies of the Newsletter please follow the links below.

Do you have news you would like to share?

If there is any news or you are aware of events that might be of interest to our supporters’ please let us know, and we will try to share these or help wherever possible.

Back Copies of the NVT Newsletter

If you would like to read back copies of our newsletter, Nyika-Vwaza News, please click on the links below:

Issue 40 – Spring 2025

Issue 39 Autumn 2024

Issue 38 – Spring 2024

Issue 37 – Autumn 2023

Issue 36 – Spring 2023

Issue 35 – Autumn 2022

Issue 34 – Spring 2022

Issue 33 – Autumn 2021

Issue 32 – Spring 2021

Issue 31 – Autumn 2020

Issue 30 – Spring 2020

Issue 29 – Autumn 2019

Issue 28 – Spring 2019

Issue 27 – Autumn 2018

Issue 26 – Spring 2018

Issue 25 – Autumn 2017

Issue 24 – Spring 2017

Issue 23 – Autumn 2016

Issue 22 – Spring 2016

Issue 21 – Autumn 2015

Issue 20 – Spring 2015

Issue 19 – Autumn 2014

Issue 18 – Spring 2014

Issue 17 – Autumn 2013

Issue 16 – Spring 2013

Issue 15 – Autumn 2012

Issue 14 – Spring 2012

Issue 13 – Autumn 2011

Issue 12 – Spring 2011

Issue 11 – Autumn 2010

Issue 10 – Spring 2010

Issue 9 – Autumn 2009

Issue 8 – Spring 2009

Issue 7 – Autumn 2008

Issue 6 – Spring 2008

Issue 5 – Autumn 2007

Issue 4 – Spring 2007

Issue 3 – Autumn 2006

Issue 2 – Spring 2006

Issue 1 – Autumn 2005