Amindeh Blaise

ABOUT THE WRITER
Amindeh Blaise Atabong was born in Batouri, a town close to the lush bushlands within the species-rich Congo Basin. He grew up in Cameroon within this ecosystem and has since 2013 worked as a freelance journalist with a bias for environment and conservation reporting. Amindeh has written for respectable local, regional and international news outlets, amongst them Reuters, Mongabay, The Times UK, African Arguments and Equal Times. He has won many awards for his work including an African Climate Change and Environment Reporting (ACCER) Award by Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA). Since 2020, he has been serving as editorial consultant for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
BY THIS WRITER
News - 21 Apr 2023
Central Africa: Battling deforestation, balancing development
The challenge of cleaning up commodity chains while maintaining livelihoods
News - 21 Apr 2023
Central Africa: Battling deforestation, balancing development
10 Apr 2023
Reporting limits Central African countries’ access to climate finance
Gaps constrain critical funding opportunities for mitigation
10 Apr 2023
Reporting limits Central African countries’ access to climate finance
29 Mar 2023
Robust intersectoral coordination could unleash Central African forests’ contribution to SDGs
Boosting the capacities of national statistics agencies also primordial
29 Mar 2023
Robust intersectoral coordination could unleash Central African forests’ contribution to SDGs
17 Mar 2023
Agriculture-linked deforestation topmost driver of emissions in Central Africa – Report
Multiple projects of different content and scale to reduce emissions linked to deforestation and degradation have been developed
17 Mar 2023
Agriculture-linked deforestation topmost driver of emissions in Central Africa – Report
24 Feb 2023
Congo Basin: Need for more funding to let ‘lungs of Africa’ breathe
Forests of Central Africa do not seem to attract as much funding as their counterparts in the Amazon and South-East Asia
24 Feb 2023
Congo Basin: Need for more funding to let ‘lungs of Africa’ breathe
2 Feb 2023
Growth of forest plantations in Central Africa lags over financing constraints
Despite exciting opportunities and strong potentials, forest plantations occupy a very limited space in the sub-region, both in terms of area and production.
2 Feb 2023
Growth of forest plantations in Central Africa lags over financing constraints
16 Jan 2023
Asian demand for timber to intensify pressure on Central Africa’s forests
Stricter European controls to ensure the legality of wood has diverted export to Asian countries.
16 Jan 2023
Asian demand for timber to intensify pressure on Central Africa’s forests
16 Nov 2022
Over a quarter of Congo Basin forests at risk of vanishing by 2050
The loss of intact forests in Central African countries has skyrocketed since 2000, reaching an all-time high in the last five years, a new report shows
16 Nov 2022
Over a quarter of Congo Basin forests at risk of vanishing by 2050