DEADLINE: EJN Media Grants to Strengthen Coverage of Environmental Crimes and Sustainable Solutions in the Amazon 2025

Journalists, environmental rights defenders, CSOs and media outlets working in the Amazon Basin, pressured by a lack of resources and training, are increasingly subject to violence and threats to their safety when they expose activities such as wildlife trafficking, illegal mining, and logging, as well as their impacts on biodiversity and Indigenous peoples in the region.

To improve the capacity of local media to safely produce accurate and in-depth coverage of environmental crimes, Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and the Internews Americas team in alliance with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announce a third round of media grants for organizations based in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 

Media grantees from the first two cohorts have worked to increase coverage of environmental crimes and their impacts, reporting on issues such as how illegal mining affects the health of riverside communities in the Amazon, the encroachment on indigenous lands in the Colombian Amazon, the migration stories of indigenous people in Peru in response to the growing threat of environmental crimes, and a series of reports narrating the transnational trafficking of Amazonian turtles at the borders of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.

For this round, organizations will be awarded grants on the strength of their proposals to produce investigative and/or collaborative stories on environmental crimes. Selected media grantees will receive guidance, feedback and editorial support from Internews' Americas team and EJN.

Media organizations, networks of journalists and/or communicators, universities, and journalistic institutions focusing on environmental crimes reporting in the Amazon region are invited to apply. 

Civil society organizations, community groups and research institutes will also be considered, provided they operate with strong media and communication components. Please note: we will not consider applications focused on advocacy, activism or political campaigning.

Deadline: February 7, 2025, 10:06 PM (America/Lima)

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