
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
- Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment
- Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national park
- Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas
- Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Oceans
- Indonesia backtracks on plan criticized for ‘privatizing’ fisheries resources
- Love ‘em and loathe ‘em: Mediterranean grapples with tasty, voracious invasive crabs
- Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers
- Amid haggling over deep-sea mining rules, chorus of skepticism grows louder

Amazon Conservation
- Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires
- First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta
- Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves
- At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Land rights and extractives
- ‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river
- Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Displaced by a dam, women defenders fight for their land rights in Colombia

Endangered Environmentalists
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders
- Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial
- In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’
- 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

Conservation Effectiveness
- Nepal was supposed to double its tiger population since 2010. It tripled it
- 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)

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
