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Government Notice No. 42, published in the Malawi Gazette Supplement of 22 May 2026. Sets the closed season (1 November to 31 March), the list of protected trees, licence conditions, royalties and fees, and replaces the Forestry Rules.
Act No. 31 of 2025. Gives named enforcement agencies powers under the Forestry Act, lets forestry officers investigate and prepare prosecutions, makes entering a forest reserve without authority an offence, and raises penalties for charcoal trafficking.
The benchmark (August 2024) against which Malawi measures emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and removals from forest growth, for results-based climate finance.
The Department’s vision, mission, core values and six key result areas, with the targets it is working to — including a two-point increase in national forest cover, from 24.4% to 26.4%, by 2028.
Act No. 7 of 2020. Passed unanimously by Parliament in February 2020, it raised fines and prison terms for forest offences and introduced the forfeiture of assets used in forest crime.
Led jointly by the Department of Forestry and the Department of Energy. Seven pillars: alternative cooking fuels, efficient cookstoves, sustainable wood production, law enforcement, regulated charcoal production, livelihoods, and behaviour change communication.
The framework behind Malawi’s commitment to restore 4.5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 under the Bonn Challenge and AFR100.
Malawi’s policy for conserving, establishing, protecting and managing trees and forests. Its priority areas — from community forest management to forest-based industries — shape the Department’s work.
How village natural resources management committees and other local forest organisations register, so they can hold forest management agreements (January 2007).
National standards for participatory forest management (November 2005): setting goals and roles, building local institutions, practical actions for sustainable forestry and livelihoods, and monitoring.
