Rainforest Reporting Grant

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Nonprofit organization

Pulitzer Center

Area

Maghreb

Host Country

Algeria

Deadline

20 Oct 2024

Opportunity type

Competitions

Opportunity funding

Not funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

The Rainforest Reporting Grant provides short-term, project-based funding support to journalists who want to report on tropical rainforests in three key regions: the Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia. They seek ambitious reporting proposals looking into critical issues including illegal deforestation, Indigenous rights, the extraction industry, biodiversity, and more.

Tropical rainforests play a crucial role in mitigating climate threats and sustaining livelihoods. However, decades of destructive deforestation and extraction of forest resources are having alarming impacts. Reporting on these issues raises public awareness and demands accountability from those with the power to make improvements.

The Rainforest Reporting Grant is an evolution of the Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF), which has supported more than 600 journalists who produced 1,700 reports in the past five years. These reports capture the various challenges, harmful industries, policy failures, scientific explorations, and inspiring practices of Indigenous communities that are taking place in forests across the three regions.

Areas of Interest of Rainforest Reporting Grant

They seek proposals that expand the scope of their rainforest reporting in the Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia. They welcome ideas that explore underreported and systemic issues affecting the regions’ tropical rainforests, such as impacts of extractive industries on local people and environment, poor forest governance, carbon market initiatives, or inspiring conservation initiatives. They encourage reporting driven by innovation, data and technology, and collaboration.

Below are topic ideas to explore:

Large-scale agro-industry
Indigenous rights and policies
Cross-border timber and wildlife trade and supply chain
Forest and biodiversity health
Chemical pollution
Forest fires
Palm oil production and regulation
Green energy
Artisanal mining and agriculture
Carbon storage and market schemes

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Eligibility for Rainforest Reporting Grant

Staff and freelance journalists are eligible.
The Rainforest Reporting Grant receives applications in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and bahasa Indonesia.

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Application

To apply, you will be asked to provide the following:

A description of the proposed project in no more than 250 words;
A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs;
A compelling distribution plan

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