
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
- Large-scale logging in Cambodia’s Prey Lang linked to politically-connected mining operation
- Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area
- Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria
- Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation

Oceans
- In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch
- For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope
- Easing of crackdown sees Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters
- Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds

Amazon Conservation
- Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area
- Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation
- ‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows
- Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Land rights and extractives
- Draft-Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people
- Tale of two pandemics as mining thrived while communities faced restrictions
- Open-pit mining ban lifted in Philippine province, clearing way for copper project
- Ousted anti-mining mayor heads back to Philippine city hall after landslide win

Endangered Environmentalists
- Citizen participation: a key achievement at the first COP to the Escazú Agreement
- “We are on the front line”: Q&A with Indigenous land defender Adiela Jineth Mera Paz
- Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee
- Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians
- Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)
- Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time
- Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Conservation Effectiveness
- In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says
- Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study
- How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
- Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

Southeast Asian infrastructure
- In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site
- Bali’s new highway project sparks concerns about agriculture and conservation areas
- Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island
- Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started
