
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.

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
- As oceans warm, temperate reef species edge closer to extinction, study shows
- Can we control marine invaders by eating them?
- Sea level rise looms, even for the best-prepared country on Earth
- Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Amazon Conservation
- 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
- Make it local: Deforestation link to less Amazon rainfall tips activism shift

Land rights and extractives
- 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
- Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

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
- 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
- Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
- Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t
