Dr. Amanda Lee Salb - Advisor & Head Veterinarian

Dr. Amanda Salb is the co-founder of Mkango Wildlife Services in Malawi whose primary goal is to help support protected land areas such as national parks, wildlife reserves and smaller privately owned reserves along with the neighboring communities to help alleviate human-wildlife conflict. 

Together with her business partner Dr Laston Chimaliro, they specialize in wildlife management activities like collaring, transmitter placement and conservation relocation of wild animals that will directly assist wildlife managers to establish and maintain wildlife populations in protected areas across Malawi. 

Mkango Wildlife Services is also on hand to help protected wildlife and communities with their specialized skills in human wildlife conflict response and wildlife disease surveillance. 

Dr. Amanda Salb graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1999, earned her DVM from Louisiana State University in 2004, and received her masters degree from the University of Calgary in 2011. She practiced for 7 years in the US and Canada, in private practice, industry and zoo before heading abroad to work in in-situ conservation. 

She joined the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust in Malawi in 2013. As the Head Veterinarian for the LWT, she supervised the veterinary clinic at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, and ran the Wildlife Emergency Response Unit, a joint partnership between the LWT and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife.