""I want to inspire people to fall in love with nature and treat it with care. Conservation begins with love. Nowadays, there are many tree-planting initiatives, but people often replace indigenous forests with saplings, believing that is mitigation, yet it is not. We must first protect what we already have."

"We must come back to nature.Conservation begins with love. We must nurture a million people who care before we plant a million trees."

"We should invest in wild animal production given the socio-economic benefits such a venture could bring to the people, especially women doing business in the bushmeat trade."

"We have challenges we need to resolve to move forward, and the board will do all it can to ensure that practical solutions are formed to end the power crisis"

"There are clear indications that COVID-19 has affected more women than men, and the situation is worse among women in the informal sector, where social protection is particularly lacking."

"Presently, we know very little about the health hazards implicated in the trade, just as we have little knowledge on the exposure of women bushmeat traders to zoonotic diseases."

"A lot of plastic wastes that we are generating end up at open dumpsites and they slide right back into the communities, causing pollution in our streams and landscape."

"Our forests provide wild mushrooms and fruits and a safe space to experience our traditions and cultural beliefs."

"Individuals have to be aware of their own contribution to the mess. Malawians should make it easier for plastics to end up in the right place and to be potentially recycled."

"Malawi is very far behind. Recycling of waste requires technology and we do not have a lot of that technology."

"Plastics are one of the most incredible inventions of our time but they are also equally disruptive and costly"

"We may have won one battle, but the war on plastics in Malawi and across the world is far from over"

"Together, we challenged the idea that these companies can put a price tag on our environment and call that development."

"You sometimes put your family at risk coming up against huge companies and people that are well connected politically. You always find there’s a conflict of interest and you’re stuck in the middle. It does feel a bit threatening and can also feel a bit scary."

"It became very personal for me after interacting with farmers"

"Some of them are losing their livestock because once the animals get into the field, which is so heavily polluted with single-use plastic, they consume these plastics, which kill them, thereby affecting the livelihood of their owners."