A Nigerian journalist, Kabir Adejumo, has been shortlisted for the environmental component of the prestigious Thomson Foundation Awards 2021.
An Assistant Investigations Editor with HumanAngle, an online newspaper, Adejumo made the top list with his story, “Special Report: Inside illicit timber trade in Osun causing deforestation.”
He wrote the story as a correspondent with Premium Times.
He was shortlisted along with 14 other journalists across the world, who according to the organisers, gave voice to communities that had played little role in raising the world’s temperature but which had been hardest hit by the climate emergency.
Said Thomson Foundation in the announcement: “These journalists have transformed complex ecological issues into compelling storytelling.”
Adejumo’s report is on the illegitimate timber trade in Osun forest, and its effect on climate change in combination with habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation.
No fewer than 200 entries from 55 countries were received for the awards before the eventual emergence of Adejumo and 14 others.
The best overall winning story, according to the organisers, would be made public on the night of the FPA Awards in London at the end of November.
It would be recalled that Adejumo was runner-up in 2020 for the same award.
A multiple award winning journalist, Adejumo works with HumanAngle, an online newspaper in Nigeria.
