Rainforest Reporting Grant

Rainforest Reporting Grant is sponsored by Pulitzer Center. Supports ambitious reporting projects in tropical forests, focusing on environmental and social issues.

[](https://pulitzercenter. org/grants-fellowships/opportunities-journalists/rainforest-reporting-grant) 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.

We seek ambitious reporting proposals looking into critical issues including illegal deforestation, Indigenous rights, the extraction industry, biodiversity, and more. Staff and freelance journalists are eligible. Applications accepted in five languages.

* Ver los términos y detalles para postular en español * Ver termos e detalhes para se candidatar em português * Voir les conditions et les détails pour postuler en français * Klik di sini untuk panduan tentang cara mendaftar dalam bahasa Indonesia 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.

Here are examples of these inspiring reports: * _Season II: Rainforest Defenders_ * _Forests to Ashes: How Wildfires Are Threatening Venezuela's Megadiverse Protected Areas and Endangering Its Biodiversity_ * _Javari, Land of Conflicts and Organized Crime_ * “Indigenous Women Form an Alliance Against Fire in the Amazon” * _Protecting Our Natural Environment: A Day in the Life of Eco-Guards in Kahuzi-Biega National Park_ * _When Charcoal and Firewood Consume Forests in the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda)_ * _“_Meet the People Safeguarding the Sacred Forests and Lagoons of West Africa” * _When the Forests Fall Silent_ * _Hungry People at Merauke Food Estate_ * _Rethinking Thailand's 40% Forest Coverage Target: A Road to Sustainable Forest Restoration?

_ * _Impacts of the Myanmar Military Coup on Natural Resource Economies in Kachin State_ ### WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We seek proposals that expand the scope of our rainforest reporting in the Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.

We 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. We 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 * Palm oil production and regulation * Artisanal mining and agriculture * Carbon storage and market schemes ### 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 The Rainforest Reporting Grant receives applications in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and bahasa Indonesia.

**This opportunity is open and we are accepting applications. ** Please review our grant application guidelines and apply. If you have specific questions about applying please contact reacheditorial@pulitzercenter.

org. We aim to support teams that reflect the communities they report on. We also hope this grant can help our partner organizations advance their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and commitments.

We accept grant proposals on a rolling basis. You typically will hear back from us within two weeks of submitting your application.

To save our grantees and staff time, we thought it would be helpful to outline editorial products and project expenses we don’t fund: * Books (we can support a story that might become part of a book, as long as the story is published independently in a media outlet) * Feature-length films (we do support short documentaries with ambitious distribution plans) * Staff salaries (with the exception of some of our yearlong fellowships) * Equipment purchases (equipment rentals are considered on a case-by-case basis) * An outlet’s general expenses (for example, rent, utilities, insurance) * Seed money for start-ups * Routine breaking news and coverage * Data projects aimed solely at academic research.

Data should be developed to enhance/support journalism.