
Articles by Varney Kamara
My name is Varney Kamara, a Liberian journalist. I am a 2011 graduate of State run University of Liberia (UL) with a BA degree in Mass Communication. I have been an active mainstream journalist for 12 years, serving in different newsroom capacities including Proofreader, Desk Editor, News Editor, Senior Editor, and Staff Writer. I previously worked for the New Democrat and The Analyst newspapers as Staff Writer and Senior Editor, respectively. I am a former Fellow of the New Narratives, a media developer organization.
I am the publisher of the Liberian Network Online news and media blog (https://liberiannetwork.wordpress.com/auhtor/liberiannetwork/) and senior reporter of “The DayLight” Online Environmental newspaper (www.thedaylight.org). I am a recipient of several local and international media certificates in investigative reporting covering the environment, human rights, land rights, politics, health, corruption, among others. I am a member of the Liberian investigative journalists’ network, a member of the Legislative Press Pool of Liberia (LEGISPOOL), and former Executive Mansion correspondent for The ANALYST and New Democrat newspapers. I come from Liberia’s northern Lofa County. I am married and have four kids.


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Forest Trackers
- Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital
- In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve
- Gold mining invades remote protected area in Ecuador
- ‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park

Oceans
- U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales
- Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea
- As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms
- Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes

Amazon Conservation
- Sonia Guajajara: Turnaround from jail threats to Minister of Indigenous Peoples
- From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method
- ‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy
- Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office

Land rights and extractives
- Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals
- FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses
- Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company
- In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers

Endangered Environmentalists
- ‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy
- Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

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
- Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics
- Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities
- Mangrove forest loss is slowing toward a halt, new report shows
- ‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life
- Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
- Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t
- Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’
