Mostly from Paul Desanker's photo/slide collection unless indicated in brackets to be from Peter Frost. All images are properties of their owners, and should not be used without permission. Future collections on the Web will build upon Miombo Network member photo collections.

Miombo Vegetation

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1. A Miombo canopy in the dry season
2. A coppice woodland after a fire, most sapling canopies affected (I)
3. A coppice woodland after a fire, most sapling canopies affected (II)
4. Isoberlinia coppice
5. Miombo woodland (Peter Frost)
6. Chipya Miombo woodland (Peter Frost)
7. Flushing Miombo tree (characterisitic purple color prior to the rainy season)

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1. Carrying home a log for firewood, bought in the city, Blantyre, Malawi
2. Brachystegia bark stripped into rope - a common use for Brachystegia branches and young trees
3. A Sapling in grassland mildly after a low intensity fire
4. Charcoal making in the field, Mozambique
5. Charcoal being hauled into a major urban area (Blantyre, Malawi)
6. Bags of charcoal for sale at a market in the city

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1. 4 bags? No problem
2. Fire (Peter Frost)
3. Harvest (Peter Frost)
4. Miombo woodland
5. Miombo woodland (Peter Frost) (I)
6. Miombo woodland (Peter Frost) (II)

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1. Aerial view of Miombo woodland (Peter Frost)
2. Capping in exposed Miombo soils

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1. Bricks are moulded using top soil, sun dried then used to build houses like the one in the background.
2. A brick kiln in the middle of the garden
3. Miombo trees surrounding a house in an urban setting in Blantyre, Malawi in dominantly agricultural areas, Malawi
4. Pumpkin growing in an area previously used to burn charcoal
5. A highly valuable mulanje cedar tree being cut into timber by hand, Malawi
6. Fuelwood for sale in the city, Kawale II, Lilongwe, Malawi

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1. Sugarcane sold by the roadside - sugarcane is grown in dambos
2. Village scene outside a maize mill - the ladies are carrying maize flour that has just been ground (I)
3. Village scene outside a maize mill - the ladies are carrying maize flour that has just been ground (II)
4. Miombo woodland in the background, Liwonde, Malawi

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1. Mrs Mlande and son carrying produce - pigeon peas and cassava, Mangazi village, Mikolongwe, Malawi
2. Patch of woodland reserved as a burial place, a typical landscape feature

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1. Scenes from the Zomba 1995 Miombo Network Meeting
2. No, that is not on this map!
3. Paul telling it like it is at the opening ceremony, Zomba Network meeting 1995
4. Group photo at the Zomba Miombo Network Meeting 1995
5. Pedro Mangue and Almeida Sitoe listening to Lusayo Mabumba tell one of his "you should have seen the size of that fish ..." stories
6. Henry Mloza-Banda, Buck Sanford and Andy Gillison, Zomba 1995

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1. The Mayor of Zomba (left) and Miombo scientists at a social organized at the Government Hostel in Zomba, 1995
2. John Malunga, Chris Justice and Pauline Dube - need we say more
3. Bob Scholes, Andrew Friend and Elizabeth Prince
4. Roland Schulze
5. Antonio Ribeiro 'liming' with Steve Makwungwa, Zomba 1995
6. Joao Morais (IGBP Secretariat, center) talking with the Hon. Minister, Pauline Dube on the right, after the opening of the Miombo network Meeting, Zomba, 1995
7. Hon. Minister Zhibvambo opening the Miombo Network Meeting, Zomba, 1995. Eric Odada (left) and Paul Desanker (right).

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1. View from Chingwe's Hole, Zomba Plateau, looking towards the Shire River
2. Another View from Chingwe's Hole, Zomba Plateau, 1995
3. A late-afternoon view on Zomba Plateau next to Chingwe's Hole
4. Pauline Dube taking a stroll at Chingwe's Hole, Zomba Plateau, 1995

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1. Patrick Phiri (facing crowd) talking about Miombo species during a field trip as part of Miombo Network Meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, Oct 1997
2. Field trip, Lusaka, October 1997
3. Field trip
4. Field trip
5. Patrick Mushove, at it again
6. A scenic spot along the road between Lusaka and Chakwenga, Zambia Oct 1997

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1. A homestead and a garden overgrown with coppice
2. Net used to catch stray tsetse flies in vehicles leaving an infested area, and sign at a check point (I)
3. Brachystegia manga: a champion tree on the way side (I)
4. Brachystegia manga: a champion tree on the way side (II)

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1. Net used to catch stray tsetse flies in vehicles leaving an infested area, and sign at a check point (II)
2. Brachystegia manga: a champion tree on the way side (III)