Welcome to Green Echoes, a newsletter from the Environmental Reporting Collective that highlights key investigative stories, data sources, funding, reporting and training opportunities and our projects from across Asia.
Our Grants
Thanks to everyone who applied for our Collaborative Reporting and Training Grants – we got so many more high quality applications from all around the world than expected. We will be in touch about final decisions soon.
Didn’t apply? The deadline for the first round of reporting grants was 30 Nov. If you sent in your application late, or weren’t able to meet the deadline, the next round closes on Feb 28th. Please apply, or respond to this email if you have any questions.
The best reporting from across Asia
The latest investigation from Oxpeckers, in partnership with Daily Pakistan, focuses on the role that tourism to Northern Pakistan plays in the trade and trafficking of endangered snow leopard bones.
For The Third Pole, Monika Mondal investigates pollution from the sugar industry in North India, and how poorly implemented environmental regulations are harming the water villagers rely on in the drought-prone region.
We also released the first follow-up story to our global Oceans Inc collaboration, by Geela Garcia, on Filipino fishers who are facing challenges from Chinese incursions into their fishing grounds, but also failed promises from the Philippines government.
Events and Training
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute, The Indonesian Association for Media Development and Earth Journalism Network (EJN) are organizing a two-day Journalism Conference on Reporting Human Rights and Climate Crisis for media and journalists in Southeast Asia (Dec 15 and 16)
The Lookout Station is organizing a series of masterclasses in early 2022 for editors and reporters on the topic of Hacking finance to end deforestation (deadline 17 Dec).
Resources
A potentially very useful new resource from Global Fishing Watch called Marine Manager. It allows you to filter fishing activity by flag state, gear used and even track individual vessels.
For anyone looking into plastic pollution – a new report from GI-TOC Asia-Pacific Observatory explores the role of organized crime in the plastic trade, and how they are enabling illicit trafficking.
And the United States Geological Survey now has high-quality Landsat 9 images available, which could be a valuable resource for those using remote monitoring to track environmental crimes. Here are guides on how to use this new imagery.
And from IJNet – a guide on doing environmental justice reporting, which is increasingly a central component to any environmental or social story.
Opportunities
Just a few days left to apply to become a fellow for the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network for investigative reporters who want to dedicate a year to uncovering the nexus of crime and corruption that facilitates the destruction of rainforests (deadline 15 Dec).
EJN is also accepting applications for story grants on Green Recovery from Covid-19 (deadline 10 Jan).
That’s all for this week – do let us know, by responding to this email, if we missed anything.
Stay safe and healthy,
Nithin Coca
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