East Africa Reporting Grants on Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation

East Africa Reporting Grants on Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation

Call for Reporting Grant Applications - Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation Solutions in East Africa.

InfoNile invites journalists in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan to submit proposals for in-depth investigative multimedia journalism stories on wildlife trafficking and conservation. These stories are part of a series of stories and will feed into a final data journalism project including interactive maps and stories.

While national parks and private conservancies in East Africa have served to protect large numbers of threatened species, the population of these species continues to decrease precipitously.

Wildlife habitat decline, wildlife trafficking and poaching are major threats to the region’s wildlife and to local people who depend on wildlife and natural ecosystems for their livelihoods.

The international wildlife trade, the bushmeat trade and human encroachment on wildlife habitats is also linked to the rise of new diseases:

The COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world is said to have originated from wildlife sales in a Chinese market, and the deadly SARS, MERS and HIV/AIDS viruses are all linked to human-animal contact.

This project is supported with funding from Internews' Earth Journalism Network.

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