EJN Biodiversity Media Grants

Eligibility Criteria: Media organizations in countries classified as either low- or middle-income by the World Bank are eligible to apply for this opportunity.
Type of Funding: Grant
Target Region: Global
Application Language: English

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering grants to three to four media organizations in low- and middle-income countries to support projects that strengthen media reporting on biodiversity issues.

To increase understanding of the threats to biodiversity, and the solutions needed to address these challenges, EJN’s Biodiversity Media Initiative is offering media grants worth €10,000-12,000 each to news organizations for projects that increase the quality and quantity of biodiversity stories.

Thematics  

• The grant will fund projects that build public awareness of threats to biodiversity and highlight conservation solutions by spreading quality news and information, with a focus on audiences in lower- and middle-income countries.
• Projects can, but are not required to, also build the capacity of journalists and communicators to report on threats to biodiversity and on conservation solutions, by building their skills, knowledge and networks.
• For organizations proposing content production only, these activities must result in robust and in-depth outputs (for example, a series of podcasts, or a multi-part investigation).
• Applications that propose less than 10 stories will not be considered competitive, unless they also propose to include capacity-building activities as part of the project.

For this round of grants, EJN is particularly interested in grants that focus on the following themes:

• OECMs (other effective area-based conservation measures) as alternatives to protected areas that contribute to the Global Biodiversity Framework’s 30×30 target;
• Dependencies and impacts of businesses on nature;
• Collaborative approaches to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through, for example, partnerships involving local communities, government agencies and private companies.
• Nature-based solutions that support biodiversity as well as other goals (climate change mitigation, food security, sustainable livelihoods, health, etc);
• Unintended harmful effects of conservation measures;
• The interlinkages between biodiversity and health

Eligibility

• Media organizations in countries classified as either low- or middle-income by the World Bank are eligible to apply for this opportunity. These classifications can be reviewed here.
• EJN is especially interested in supporting projects in biodiversity-rich regions of the world, or projects in countries facing unprecedented biodiversity loss.
• This opportunity is open to journalist networks, media organizations, civil society organizations or academic institutions.
• EJN will not consider applications rooted in advocacy or political campaigning.
• For the purposes of this grant opportunity, it will only be accepting applications in English.
• Existing or former EJN grantees are eligible to apply; however EJN will not support organizations that we awarded grants to in 2025.

How to apply

• Applicants must apply by creating their account or logging in to an existing account on the EJN platform.
• Applications should provide a detailed budget in an Excel spreadsheet with justification for the amount requested. The budget template can by downloaded using this link.
• Applications must be submitted no later than March 28, 2026, 11:59 PM (Pacific/Niue).

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