About us.

Meet the international journalists and newsrooms behind the Environmental Reporting Collective.

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:

  1. COLLABORATIVE REPORTING: Our journalists work together to fill in gaps in each others’ reporting, especially when tracing environmental crimes across borders.

  2. GLOBAL ISSUES, LOCAL PERSPECTIVES: Newsrooms are encouraged to adapt our work to fit local contexts.

  3. A WIDER AUDIENCE: With over 20 partners in 4 continents, our journalists’ stories can have a much higher impact.


Work with us

We are expanding our network of newsrooms and journalists! Contact us to join an ongoing investigation, or to pitch a new project.

Reach us at contact@investigative.earth.

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Who we are

The Environmental Reporting Collective is managed by a Core Team which coordinates our work across continents.

Our partner newsrooms