Articles by Isaiah Esipisu
Isaiah Esipisu is a freelance journalist and a communications consultant based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has 14 years experience in journalism and has published communication elements in various publications including the Inter Press Service (IPS), Thomson Reuters Foundation, SPORE Magazine, New Internationalist Magazine, Eyes on Malaria Magazine, the Daily Nation, The East African, People Daily, Standard Newspapers, The Agrolink magazine, The CliniMed magazine, the Kenya News Agency among others. He is currently the Continental Coordinator for the Pan African Media for Climate Change (PAMACC), an association that brings together over 60 African journalists who write about climate change, agriculture and related issues. Esipisu is a co-author for a handbook titled ‘Reporters Guide to the Millennium Development Goals,’ published by the Inter Press Institute (IPI). In 2011, he co-authored the United Nations report titled ‘The Global Compact profiling private sector initiatives in Kenya 2000-2010. In 2012, he won an award sponsored by Internews in Kenya and co-authored a photography book titled ‘The Kindest Cut,’ – focusing on voluntary male circumcision. He has worked as a consultant for different organizations including Internews, KALRO (KASAL project), Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Arid Land Information Network (ALIN), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), ActionAid, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Egerton University, CABI among others. He studied Journalism at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
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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