The Environmental Reporting Collective is a growing network of journalists and newsrooms from over a dozen countries, all dedicated to investigating environmental crimes collaboratively.

Our collaborative approach to journalism means that all our content – stories, videos, photos, etc. – are free to be republished and adapted by any media organisation (under Creative Commons license BY-NC 4.0).

This allows us to investigate and expose global environmental crimes on a much larger scale, for three reasons:

- COLLABORATIVE REPORTING: Our journalists work together to fill in gaps in each others’ reporting, especially when tracing environmental crimes across borders.
- GLOBAL ISSUES, LOCAL PERSPECTIVES: Newsrooms are encouraged to adapt our work to fit local contexts.
- A WIDER AUDIENCE: With over 20 partners in 4 continents, our journalists’ stories can have a much higher impact.

Today, the ERC continues to run cross-border investigative projects that highlight the role of large-scale environmental crimes in the global climate crisis.

Our logo, a pangolin, is inspired by our first project, The Pangolin Reports. Over 40 journalists worked together to investigate and expose the global pangolin trafficking trade.
Our logo, a pangolin, is inspired by our first project, The Pangolin Reports. Over 40 journalists worked together to investigate and expose the global pangolin trafficking trade.