
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
- Mennonite colonies linked to deforestation of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Paraguay
- Deforestation on the rise in Quintana Roo, Mexico, as Mennonite communities move in
- Logged and loaded: Cambodian prison official suspected in massive legalized logging operation
- Bolivian national park hit hard by forest fires in 2022, satellite data show

Oceans
- Deep-sea mining meeting closes without resolving whether mining can start in July
- ‘Manta grid’ provides a ray of hope against industrial bycatch threat
- As oceans warm, temperate reef species edge closer to extinction, study shows
- Can we control marine invaders by eating them?

Amazon Conservation
- RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report
- Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation
- Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities
- Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Land rights and extractives
- Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?
- Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities
- Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections
- Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

Endangered Environmentalists
- ‘You don’t kill people to protect forests’: New Thai parks chief raises alarm
- Vietnam’s environmental NGOs face uncertain status, shrinking civic space
- ‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy
- Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office

Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- 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
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Conservation Effectiveness
- For key Bangladesh wetland, bid for Ramsar status is no guarantee of protection
- Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics
- Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities
- Mangrove forest loss is slowing toward a halt, new report shows

Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams
- As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?
- As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus
- Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life
