Special Reporting Projects Grant
Funding route · no open call
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- Deadline
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- Who can apply
- Non-profits, consultancies, individuals · Worldwide, Africa
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In context
This call is open to non-profits, consultancies and professional-services firms and individuals. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country and Africa. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.
Mongabay funds original journalism reporting on themes including tropical forests, indigenous peoples and conservation, and climate action from an African perspective. The programme supports staff journalists, contributors, and partner media outlets to produce collaborative investigative and feature reporting.
About this grant
Mongabay's Special Reporting Projects provide paid opportunities for a global network of journalists to contribute original reporting on environmental, climate, and conservation themes. The program supports diverse reporting initiatives including coverage of biodiversity loss, tropical forests, fisheries, coastal issues, indigenous peoples and local communities, wildlife trade, climate solutions, agroecology, and reforestation. Projects operate across multiple geographic regions and languages, addressing critical socio-environmental issues and conservation challenges worldwide.
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Eligibility
Journalists and reporting professionals globally are eligible to pitch stories and contribute to Mongabay's reporting projects. The program operates through an open pitch process where journalists can propose stories aligned with Mongabay's thematic focus areas across multiple regions and languages including English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, and Bengali.
Key requirements
- ✓Original reporting around designated themes (tropical forests, indigenous peoples and conservation, COP29 from African lens)
- ✓Applicants may be staff journalists, contributors, or partner media outlets
- ✓Collaborative or coordinated reporting encouraged across diverse journalists and outlets
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Special Reporting Projects?
- Eligibility covers non-profits, consultancies and individuals in any country. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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Biodiversity funding backs habitat restoration, species protection, protected areas and nature-positive business. It comes from environment agencies, multilateral nature funds and conservation philanthropy, often through competitive calls with defined regions. Applicants are usually asked for baseline surveys, local partners and indicators that show ecological change.
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