Tom Walker

My latest (and final) piece for @thegeckoproject.org:

The Tin Racket Illegal mining ransacked these Indonesian islands. Tech titans turned a blind eye.

🚨New from me: For years, Indonesian mining giant PT Timah systematically sourced illegal tin while supplying global tech firms.

We @thegeckoproject.org found illegal tin likely entered Timah’s supply chain as recently as late 2024

Published w/ @ftm.eu @ftm.nl, Yle (Finland) and KCIJ-Newstapa👇

Fear and Raiders in Papua How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests

NEW: The Indonesian government is using thousands of soldiers to force through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests in Merauke, Papua.

We investigated how this is affecting Papuans by interviewing people whose land has been targeted and analysing soldiers' TikTok posts.

EJN’s Latest Collaborative Project Ground Truths Concludes with 13 Stories Over the last few months, journalists from 11 different media outlets across Asia got their hands dirty and teamed up to produce a series of unique stories investigating the state of soil health in th...

It was great to be able to collaborate on this @earthjournalism.bsky.social project with reporters from across Asia, on the importance of soil health for food security, biodiversity, health, and climate.

Check out the full set of stories:

Fruits of spoil: Laos' forests disappearing as fruit farms flourish The country’s improved railway connectivity facilitates fruit exports to China but has also sparked a boom in foreign-owned banana and durian farms, leading to forest clearance

Laos' Attapeu province is experiencing breakneck deforestation to make way for major Chinese banana and durian farms www.mekongeye.com/2024/12/16/f...

Climate Journalists (Arena Climate Network) Join the conversation

Hey everyone! This is a starter pack of climate and environmental journalists from all over Europe. Follow them if you want to be informed about the biggest crisis we're facing. go.bsky.app/PNfpiST #ClimateCrisis

Shining a light on dark money Shadow companies can hide all kinds of wrongdoing – until they're exposed

I talked to @tbij.bsky.social this week for their excellent newsletter 'The Spark' about the response to our @thegeckoproject.org investigations into "shadow" companies driving deforestation in SE Asia.

Cyd - Claw back your data from Big Tech Automatically delete your data from tech platforms, except for what you want to keep

Do you want to remove your old posts on X?

@freedom.press co-founder @micahflee.com created a new piece of software called Cyd, which helps you claw back your data from X, with plans to extend this functionality to other social media sites like Facebook and Reddit.

It's easy to use. Check it out ⬇️

When @thegeckoproject.org publishes an investigative piece—I pay attention!

(the images in this piece on the nickel rush in Sulawesi are as eloquent as the report 💔)