
Articles by Estacio Valoi
Estacio Valoi Investigative Journalist from the Mozambican Investigative Journalism Center
Mozambican journalist who advises Oxpeckers on a broad range of environmental problems in the region. He has covered a range of environmental investigations for Zambeze daily newspaper and international media. He helped establish Zambeze and is newsroom chief editor in Quelimane, in northern Mozambique. His investigations have been featured by the Forum for African Investigative Reporters, German Radio Station DW, South African TV station (SABC, and the Reuters Thompson Foundation,e-TV.
Collaborator of Express Moz Newspaper, Reporter of Zambeze newspaper, Radio Mozambique. www.rm.co.mz, Maputo, Reporter English service of Radio Mozambique, MCR (Mozambique), including Investigation published in a Verdade ,Savana, Sol do Indico, Canal Moz, Le Monde, Daily Maverick, Allafrica, M&G, 100reporters newspapers among others. He is also photographer
Fair- African investigative journalism award winner 2012 Run up 30 October, Johannesburg, South Africa. FAIR member and from Investigative Reporters and Editor (IRE)
Board member from (GIJN). Also founder of the Mozambican Investigative Journalism Centre and Moz24h newspaper . Also trainer ( Training with WWF South Africa, Angola training journalist in Investigative reporting and recently in Mozambique Cabo Delgado).
Founder the Moz24h Newspaper and co-founder of Mozambican Investigative Journalism Centre a free-lance investigative reporter who focuses on environmental crime and looting in his country, Mozambique, which is racked by poaching of rhino and elephant and robbed of its gemstone and timber resources by a myriad of criminal syndicates, often connected to the highest levels in government. His latest challenge saw him duck and dive bulldozers and security companies’ machine guns in Montepuez, an area ravaged by destructive mining practices and forced removals of villagers, perpetrated by a local elite in cahoots with a multinational gemstones company.

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Forest Trackers
- New concession in Botum Sakor National Park handed to Cambodia’s Royal Group
- Elephants invade as habitat loss soars in Nigerian forest reserve
- In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands
- Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Oceans
- Seventy-plus nations sign historic high seas treaty, paving way for ratification
- First Nation and scientists partner to revive climate-saving eelgrass
- ‘Totally unsustainable’ sand mining harms marine environments, new data suggest
- A Philippines NGO project aimed to protect villages from typhoons: What went wrong?

Amazon Conservation
- Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights
- EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking
- Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged
- In Roraima, Indigenous communities forge sustainable solutions amid threats

Land rights and extractives
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans
- Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?
- Elders call for Indigenous cultural preservation in new Indonesia capital

Endangered Environmentalists
- 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’
- Climate of fear persists among Nepal’s eco defenders as threats rise

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
- Group certification helps Malaysia’s Sabah aim for palm oil sustainability
- A Philippines NGO project aimed to protect villages from typhoons: What went wrong?
- From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope
- Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Southeast Asian infrastructure
- 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
- Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams
