
Articles by Ifham Nizam
I, Ifham Nizam, a fulltime journalist currently attached to The Daily
Island/Sunday Island, published by the Upali Newspapers Limited (Pvt) Ltd- SriLanka one of the leading publishing establishments in Sri Lanaka.
I have been working with mainstream Sri Lankan media for more than two
decades as a full timer. I specialized in the print media and served as an
environment, energy and science journalist.
My contribution to journalism in Sri Lanka has been publicly acknowledged as I had clinched the prestigious award for the best environmental Journalist of the year (English medium), thrice. Apart from many other awards for covering a wide spectrum, energy, climate change and science.
During my career, I have also covered parliament proceedings for more than 10 years, current affairs, human rights, health, sustainable development and ecotourism. I have the distinction of being a member of the team of journalists that rushed to the northern part of Sri Lanka-Jaffna when soil-tests were done on the Chemmani mass grave sites.
In 2014, as the Asia Journalism Fellowship (AJF), I conducted a comparative study of Sri Lanka and Singapore on Water Management –Nanyang
Technological University- Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information-Singapore.
In 2007, I was selected for the International Visitor Program: Washington D.C Academic Curriculum conducted by University of Southern California And
Washington D.C. California and Jackson Mississippi Participated Leadership
Program.


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Special series
Forest Trackers
- Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms
- Indigenous communities in Argentina’s Chaco fear another heavy fire season in 2023
- As tourism booms in India’s Western Ghats, habitat loss pushes endangered frogs to the edge
- In a Bolivian protected area torn up for gold, focus is on limiting damage

Oceans
- As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others
- Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River
- Expedition to Pacific ecosystems hopes to learn from their resilience
- Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Amazon Conservation
- Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances
- Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals
- Indigenous land rights key to curbing deforestation and restoring lands: Study
- World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Land rights and extractives
- Dams and plantations upend livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo River Valley
- Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances
- Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar
- Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon

Endangered Environmentalists
- Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched
- ‘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

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
- Study shows Kenyan elephant shrew may be adapting to human disturbance, drought
- Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example
- From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the ‘peace farmers’ of Colombia
- For key Bangladesh wetland, bid for Ramsar status is no guarantee of protection

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
