Articles by Humphrey Nkonde
Humphrey Nkonde is an award-winning professional freelance investigative journalist holding a distinction in sub-editing and design from the London School of Journalism. The Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Journalism (SKUP) offered him a grant to attend the 11 th Global Investigative Journalism Conference held in Hamburg, Germany from September 26 to 29, 2019. In 2014, he was the leader for an innovative Braille magazine for the blind in Zambia, a project that was sponsored by Hivos and Free Press Unlimited of the Netherlands. He was among 12 journalists across Africa who were offered grants by the Africa-China Reporting Project at the University of the Witwatersrand to do Forum China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) themed articles before South Africa hosted the sixth FOCAC in December 2015. In 2016, he won the best innovation award in gender and equity reporting in education under Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) journalism awards. He was among 15 journalists in January 2018 who were invited by the London-based Thomson Reuters Foundation to attend a workshop on investigative journalism in Kampala, Uganda.
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break
- Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries
- Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance
- Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies
Amazon Conservation
- Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas
- Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice
- Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state
- Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up
Land rights and extractives
- New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
- Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners
- Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote
- Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says
Endangered Environmentalists
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- 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’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- 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
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- 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