Articles by Alex Tumuhimbise
I hold a national diploma holder in journalism and a student of Bachelors in Journalism and mass communication at Uganda Pentecostal University-UPU in Fort portal City. Male by sex aged 30 years. I worked with Liberty broadcasting services Radio and BTV in Hoima City in 2012 where I worked as a radio producer of various program’s documentaries, adverts and talk-shows. In 2012, I joined Emambya FM radio-95.4 in Kakumiro town council, Kibaale district as a news reporter and Radio producer. I was promoted to the post of Deputy Editor. In Mid 2014,I started serving as News Editor. I worked with Uganda Radio Network, Chimpreports Uganda and MK News Link Uganda online news agencies from 2013 to 2016. In 2014 I completed a two phased training in oil and gas reporting on land and environmental affairs at African center for media excellence-ACME in Kampala. With the support of this training, I managed to carry out several story projects on land rights abuses in Buliisa Oil and gas district which featured on Emambya fm radio weekend news magazine and Chimp-reports online news agency. In the same 2014, I succeeded in getting a reporting grant under the EMERTA-Enhanced Media Reporting for Transparency and Accountability from African center for media Excellency-ACME (http://acme-ug.org/) where I carried out a radio investigative report on health theme ‘‘Malnutrition in Kibaale district’’. The story was aired on 95.4 Emambya FM. I worked with Wizzarts media where I reported several documentaries on environmental like silting of River Nkusi and HIV/AIDs. In 2017 I joined Monitor Publications (Daily Monitor/ www.monitor.co.ug one of the leading private news papers under the Nations Media group as a correspondent based in Albertine region. I have worked on several environmental related stories including the effects of stone quarrying by Chinese companies on local communities affected road projects. In September 2020,I worked on investigative story on Illicit Financial Flow with support from Thomson Reuters Foundation-TRF and Wealth of Nations-WON. The story was published in Daily Monitor on 3rd November 2020.
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break
- Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries
- Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance
- Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies
Amazon Conservation
- Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas
- Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice
- Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state
- Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up
Land rights and extractives
- New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
- Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners
- Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote
- Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says
Endangered Environmentalists
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
- Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest