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Amir Sadiq

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Africa, Nigeria, North America
As seen in: The Habibat Project, Medium, Atlas Obscura, Okayafrica, Daily Trust, Earth Journalism Network, The Open Notebook, Offrange
Covers:  Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, and Biodiversity Conservation stories.
Environmental Journalist. Writing and editing at The Habibat Project.
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GEF-9: How Nigeria is Preparing for the New Funding Cycle | The Habibat Project

GEF-9: How Nigeria is Preparing for the New Funding Cycle | The Habibat Project

The Habibat Project — Nigeria is preparing GEF-9 projects with greater focus on livelihoods, despite ongoing challenges with funding and monitoring in initiatives like the Great...
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How the Nigerian Conservation Foundation Is Supporting Nigeria's Sustainability Ambitions in the ...

How the Nigerian Conservation Foundation Is Supporting Nigeria's Sustainability Ambitions in the ...

The Habibat Project — The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) is implementing several GEF-funded projects in Nigeria, including the restoration of Omo Forest in Ogun State and,...
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As GEF Closes GEF-8 Funding Cycle, Nigeria Looks Ahead to...

As GEF Closes GEF-8 Funding Cycle, Nigeria Looks Ahead to...

Daily Trust — At the Eight Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the GEF Council has approved 232.5 million USD in their 71st meeting, marking...
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U.S. Sorghum Farmers Look to Africa

U.S. Sorghum Farmers Look to Africa

Offrange — We produce almost 10 million metric tons of this commodity grain each year. With the Chinese export market collapsing, some growers are eyeing the African continent.
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How Nigerian Toad Was Lost, Found But Almost Extinct

How Nigerian Toad Was Lost, Found But Almost Extinct

Daily Trust — At the start of each farming season, Ademigokun Sunday grabs a sack of hoes and a cutlass and treks for 40 minutes to the wooded valleys of the Idanre Hills,
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Urgent Intervention Required for Women Fishers and Mangrove-Coastal Ecosystems in Mauritius

Urgent Intervention Required for Women Fishers and Mangrove-Coastal Ecosystems in Mauritius

The Habibat Project — "...the government intervened to protect the mangroves, which was good but overly strict, neglecting traditional and ancestral uses, like people using mangrove roots to counter diabetes..."
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Tractors for the People

Tractors for the People

Offrange — Very few farms in Africa are mechanized, but a handful of ag-tech startups are trying to get tractors to the masses.
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Battling Chytrid: A Conservationist's Journey to Protect Frog Populations from a Ravaging Epidemi...

Battling Chytrid: A Conservationist's Journey to Protect Frog Populations from a Ravaging Epidemi...

The Habibat Project — "Long-term, conservation needs to change; we need to future-proof our efforts. Providing frogs with heritable resistance to disease may be the way forward."
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In Bagamoyo, Women Pioneer Seaweed Farming to Protect Coastal Ecosystems

In Bagamoyo, Women Pioneer Seaweed Farming to Protect Coastal Ecosystems

The Habibat Project — "[Green] seaweeds absorb carbon dioxide from the surrounding water and air during photosynthesis, help to mitigate ocean acidification, and reduce the impact of climate change."
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Fourteen years later, unregulated gold mining in Zamfara State, Nigeria, is still causing problem...

Fourteen years later, unregulated gold mining in Zamfara State, Nigeria, is still causing problem...

The Habibat Project — "The bandits came around 2 am in the middle of the night to attack our community. I was heavily pregnant with my baby, then everybody was running helter-skelter..."
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Wild Life - Atlas Obscura

Wild Life - Atlas Obscura

Atlas Obscura — Joined an amazing team of contributors to write this wonder piece. This is the world of Wild Life - and it's your world, too. As we wait for our ultimate explorer's guide, we're collecting some of our best-ever writing on animals, plants, fungi, and natural adventures.
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Fighting Cancer via PROTACs, RIPTACs, and the Downmodulation of a Transcription Factor

Fighting Cancer via PROTACs, RIPTACs, and the Downmodulation of a Transcription Factor

The Habibat Project — PROTACs (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) was first introduced in 2001 to help remove specific unwanted protein growths, with the potential to target and destroy disease-causing protein tumors.
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By renting out fiberglass canoes to locals, Madagascar's trees survive brutal axing

By renting out fiberglass canoes to locals, Madagascar's trees survive brutal axing

The Habibat Project — "One fiber canoe can protect eight big trees," says Lily-Arison
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Operation climate litigation

Operation climate litigation

Medium — On a beautiful Saturday morning, I was reading through a host of reports, as is my routine on weekends, and I came across a UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) report published on July 27...
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Isn't Health Wealth Anymore?

Isn't Health Wealth Anymore?

Medium — Health is always prioritized in every policy-making process at individual and national levels, because humankind is the real wealth of nations before minerals and resources. But, is this the case with nuclear weapons around?
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Soilless agriculture is the way out of a global food crisis

Soilless agriculture is the way out of a global food crisis

Medium — The issue of global food insecurity prevails and is in one of the worst conditions ever. Many factors are responsible for this dire situation which is about a lack of consistent access to healthy food.
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HOW A SUSTAINABLE USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES CAN FOSTER SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN....

HOW A SUSTAINABLE USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES CAN FOSTER SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN....

Medium — Africa is undergoing an unprecedented and sustained growth. By 2050, the continent will be home to at least two billion people - twice as many as today - with 40% living in rural areas.
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Ruth Olurounbi and Kelechukwu Iruoma Report on the Health and Environmental Devastation Wrought b...

Ruth Olurounbi and Kelechukwu Iruoma Report on the Health and Environmental Devastation Wrought b...

The Open Notebook — The Indigenous people of Ogoniland, Nigeria, have been exposed to decades' worth of oil spills. They can no longer farm or fish as a result of the devastation of their environment. In an eye-opening, award-winning investigation, Nigerian journalists Ruth Olurounbi and Kelechukwu Iruoma revealed evidence of health harms on the people of Ogoniland, likely from exposure to oil-associated contaminants in their environment. Amir interviews the journalists on the story behind the story.
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How COP27 Can Address the Massive Flooding in African Countries

How COP27 Can Address the Massive Flooding in African Countries

Okayafrica — News story on flooding and other environmental issues plaguing the African continent. This was reported ahead of COP27 event that held in Sharm-al-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Threaten Nepal's Himalayan Communities

Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Threaten Nepal's Himalayan Communities

The Habibat Project — Increasing global temperatures are predisposing the South-Asian Himalayan nation to worse floods (Edited this story)
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As World Rivers Day approaches, cause for concern - and hope - for the planet's waterways

As World Rivers Day approaches, cause for concern - and hope - for the planet's waterways

The Habibat Project — "Overall, researchers estimate that 63% of the world's longest rivers no longer flow freely and nearly half of all reaches have some level of fragmentation." (Edited this story)
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