“He was really beaten”: Violence towards fishers continues on Lake Victoria
Fishers in Lake Victoria continue to work in fear and trepidation, with many of them detailing acts of violence by the Ugandan armed forces who insist their methods have helped quell illegal fishing.
COP27: This is no time for apathy or complacency; the urgency of the moment is upon us
ERC joins the Guardian's editorial on COP27, calling for action from world leaders on the climate crisis along with more than 30 media organisations in more than 20 countries. Climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation between all nations. That’s why today more than 30 newspapers and media organisations in more than 20 […]
Countries fail to agree on Antarctic conservation measures for fifth straight year
By: Richa Syal For the fifth year in a row, a council of nations involved in Antarctic fishing operations have failed to agree on new conservation measures which experts had hoped would protect the Southern Ocean from overfishing, particularly of the keystone krill species. Members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living […]
NOTE: GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR 2023 The Environmental Reporting Collective are offering training grants for journalists and newsrooms to organise self-tailored training programmes for themselves, but which are also open to other ERC partner newsrooms and journalists. Grantees will organise the training themselves, with assistance from the ERC Core Team. We’re offering three grants […]
Call for Applications: ERC Collaborative Reporting Grants
Applications for our Collaborative Reporting Grants are now open. The deadline is August 15th, 2023. The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) is now again accepting applications for its Collaborative Reporting Grants to support journalists working together on tracing environmental crimes across borders. In 2022, ERC supported nine teams of reporters working from more than a dozen […]
South Korean media are honing in on environmental reporting
By Seulki Lee SEOUL – South Korea's journalists have had to fight fiercely for their independence. These struggles shaped newsroom culture, putting politics first in most investigative reporting. Environmental reporters who try to report beyond the protests and campaigns in the established media organizations thus have an additional task: to persuade editors that their beat matters […]
We asked 50 journalists in Asia how they’d improve environmental journalism. Here’s what they had to say
By Ryan Ho Kilpatrick Environmental journalists foreshadowed the dangers of zoonotic diseases and alerted us to the perils of climate change that are now part of our lives. But writers of environmental news see vital areas for improvement. According to a survey of environmentalist journalists mostly based in Asia by the Environmental Reporting Collective, the […]
A data investigation by #WildEye Asia exposes lenient punishments for pangolin offences in China. Such sentences are unlikely to deter illegal trade. Data collated by #WildEye Asia shows that, of the 34 criminals convicted of pangolin-related crimes since late 2019, close to half were given suspended sentences of less than a year. This meant they did […]
Op-ed by Gie Goris and Jago Kosolosky, current and future editor-in-chief of MO*, Belgium. Late last year, MO* under the leadership of Gie published The Pangolin Reports in Flemish. On Aug. 1, 2020, Jago will take over the helm from Gie as editor-in-chief of MO* magazine and the news site. This op-ed first appeared on […]
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