In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem
NAIROBI — Munene Njoka, a young farmer from central Kenya, is furious. The reason for his rage is a bundle of decaying maize stacked in a corner of his home.…
Articles by David Njagi
David Njagi, is a freelance journalist, born, and practicing in Kenya. He specializes in print, online and photojournalism and has a special inclination towards science reporting.
Njagi has over nine years experience in the field of journalism, having graduated from Kenya Polytechnic University College with a Diploma in Journalism and Public Relations in 2003.
He has also embarked on several professional development trainings with respected institutions such as Internews Kenya, the Sida Makerere Environmental Training Programme and the Media Council of Kenya, among others.
He has published his work with both local and international media outlets. Locally, he has published with the Star and the Nation Media Group publications, among others.
At the International and online level, he has published with Mongabay.com, Reuters AlertNet, allAfrica.com, Inter Press Services (IPS), Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) Onislam and Africa Science News Service (ASNS), among others.
David is keen to seek any opportunity that develops him professionally and enriches his career. His hobbies are reading, participating in insightful debates and of course, writing.
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Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app
MAKUENI, Kenya — A quarter of the world's 4.4 billion hectares (10.9 million acres) of cropland is degraded, often due to drying, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization…
Kenya, conservation and music: Q&A with singer Barbara Guantai
Musician Barbara Guantai fuses Afro-jazz, pop, and soul, a combination that blends well when she unleashes her artistic expression as a Kenyan singer, songwriter and performer. Based in Nairobi, a…
In Kenya, the indigenous music of Afro Simba promotes environmental stewardship and peace
Kombo Chokwe Burns is a musician, producer, and writer of music who has walked the artistic path from the village of Rabai on the country's coast to Kenya's capital, Nairobi. His band Afro…
‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique
NACOPA, Mozambique — It’s nighttime on Mount Nallume in central Mozambique and the chirping of frenzied crickets fills the thick forest air. Then, toward midnight, another voice joins the cacophony.…
In East Africa, spread of sickle bush drives conflict with wildlife
ARUSHA, Tanzania — At the Randilen Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in northern Tanzania, the searing heat and parched terrain make it an attractive hour for a cold swim. A herd of…
Satellite technology unites Kenyans against bush fires
NYERI, Kenya - It took nine hours for Margaret Wanjugu and neighbors to put out a fire that razed Gathorongai forest near her home in central Kenya, in 2016. She…
Farmers see promise and profit for agroforestry in southern Kenya
KERITA, Kenya — It is high noon at Samuel Rono’s farm in Kerita village in southern Kenya, but the cool breeze blowing through gives visitors a sense of nature’s comfort. Even the…
Doubts cloud Kenya’s renewed palm oil ambitions
ISIMICHINI, Kenya — In the 10 years Arthur Inzofu has been growing oil palm trees at his farm in Isimichini village in western Kenya, he has seen few benefits. But…
Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya
ven with two grades to go before completing high school, Vincent Kiptum has already figured out how to deal with a problem troubling his village in Kenya’s Rift Valley: truancy…
Kenya’s forests squeezed as government pressures environment groups
t age 70 Ngai Mutuoboro may not possess the vibrancy of his youthful days, but he can still pack a punch when it comes to environmental conservation. The elder from…
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Forest Trackers
- Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital
- In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve
- Gold mining invades remote protected area in Ecuador
- ‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park
Oceans
- The dark side of light: Coastal urban lighting threatens marine life, study shows
- Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
- U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales
- Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea
Amazon Conservation
- Sonia Guajajara: Turnaround from jail threats to Minister of Indigenous Peoples
- From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method
- ‘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
Land rights and extractives
- Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals
- FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses
- Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company
- In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers
Endangered Environmentalists
- ‘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
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders
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
- 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
- ‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life
- Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
- Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t
- Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’
