
Articles by Fredrick Mugira
Fredrick Mugira is a Ugandan National Geographic Storytelling Explorer; Pulitzer Center Grantee and a multiple award-winning water and climate change journalist; media trainer, and development communication specialist with close to 15 years of wide-ranging experience. He has reported from various countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and USA and led media training in environmental reporting, refugee reporting, and other topics across East Africa and the Nile Basin. He heads Water Journalists Africa a network of over 700 journalists in Africa reporting about water, cofounded InfoNile, a geojournalism platform mapping data on water issues in the Nile River basin and is a key project partner of the three-year Open Water Diplomacy project led by IHE-Delft Institute of Water Education in the Netherlands. Along with Water Journalists Africa and InfoNile, he currently works as an editor Vision Group, Uganda’s leading multimedia house.


Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes
Special series
Forest trackers
- Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade
- Colombian and Ecuadorian Indigenous communities live in fear as drug traffickers invade
- Cocaine production driving deforestation into Colombian national park
- Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Oceans
- 2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)
- ‘Tamper with nature, and everyone suffers’: Q&A with ecologist Enric Sala
- New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries
- Study: Chinese ‘dark fleets’ illegally defying sanctions by fishing in North Korean waters

Amazon conservation
- Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs
- Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon rainforest: Study
- Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
- Tropical forests can take the heat, study finds. Dryness? Not so much

Land rights and extractives
- Podcast: New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining
- Environmentalists seek to block Bahamas oil drilling bid near U.S. coast
- Podcast: Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization
- Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Endangered environmentalists
- Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
- Indonesian fishers opposed to dredging project hit by ‘criminalization’ bid
- Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’
- In Philippines’ Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer

Indonesias forest 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
- Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition
