As Mongabay deepens its reporting across Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, award-winning senior science journalist Aimable Twahirwa is bringing his decades of experience to ensure the region’s stories reach international audiences. For Twahirwa, journalism serves as a tool to not only report on facts, but strengthen general audiences and the media’s resilience. “Countering misinformation and science denial is critical to bolster public trust and fortify the news ecosystem against manipulation,” Twahirwa says. Based in Kigali, Rwanda, Twahirwa draws on 25 years of science and environmental journalism experience for his role as a Central and West Africa staff writer at Mongabay. In that time, he’s covered a wide range of development-related issues in Rwanda, Central Africa and East Africa, with a growing interest in wildlife, biodiversity and nature. At its core, his day-to-day reporting is inspired by the potential to drive change. “I like telling impact stories covering topics that call for action, which can then be shared with those who are in a position to do something about it,” he says. Before joining Mongabay in September 2024, Twahirwa published in-depth feature stories for regional and international media outlets and global news agencies. His work has appeared in Nature, Inter Press Service, AllAfrica, Thomson Reuters Foundation (formerly known as AlertNet), SciDev.Net and many other platforms, where he has contributed to long-term reporting projects across multimedia formats. Twahirwa at Rwanda’s flagship Gorilla Naming Ceremony, at the foothills of Volcanoes National Park in the village of Kinigi in northern Rwanda. Image courtesy of…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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