International Rainforest Journalism Fund

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The Rainforest Journalism Fund aims to support and build capacity of local, regional, and international journalists reporting on issues related to tropical rainforests. International reporting reaches audiences outside the main rainforest regions and helps create global awareness of tropical rainforest issues. International reporting on rainforest issues can show how local rainforest issues are linked to global trends, and how global events can impact local (especially Indigenous or traditional) communities and landscapes in tropical rainforests. The Rainforest Journalism Fund’s regional advisory committees provide insights on international reporting proposals, but international projects are reviewed by the Pulitzer Center.

Learn more about the Rainforest Journalism Fund.

Stories

March 07, 2020 | BBC

John Beck on Climate Change in the Sullivan Islands

John Beck

The Solomon Islands, once a South Pacific paradise of blue lagoons, and emerald forests are severely affected by climate change.

March 06, 2020 | UN Dispatch

How China’s Demand for Soybeans is Fueling the Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest

Melissa Chan

A story with immense explanatory power touching on geopolitics, the rise of China and the power of Chinese consumers—and of course, climate change.

March 05, 2020 | Here and Now

Tropical Forests Are Absorbing Less Carbon

Daniel Grossman

The journal Nature reports that a key bulwark against runaway climate change is breaking down.

March 04, 2020 | The Washington Post

The Congo Rainforest Is Losing Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide. That’s Bad for Climate Change.

Daniel Grossman

Scientists have determined that trees in the Congo Basin of Africa are losing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, raising alarms about the health of world’s second largest contiguous rainforest.

February 25, 2020 | The Washington Post

How Bolsonaro’s Risky Bet on China in the Amazon Could Backfire

Melissa Chan and Heriberto Araújo

Like so many politicians, campaign rhetoric switches once leaders take office and face the realities of doing business with China. But Bolsonaro has bet big on China — and that's risky business.

February 21, 2020 | Gizmodo

Coconut Oil Could Be the Next Disastrous Biofuel

Nithin Coca

There is growing evidence that these biofuels have little climate or environmental benefit.

February 21, 2020 | PRI's The World

Chinese Development in the Amazon

Melissa Chan

Last year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached the highest rate in more than a decade. One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region is the growing of soybeans for livestock feed. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to reporter and Pulitzer Center Grantee Melissa Chan about her reporting in Brazil on Chinese interests in the Amazon.

February 17, 2020 | The New Yorker

A Nun's Journey in the Amazon

Elizabeth Barber

How do you make a difference in a struggle that may never end?

February 16, 2020 | The Atlantic

China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.

Melissa Chan and Heriberto Araújo

National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders.

February 05, 2020 | Scientific American

Peru’s Peatlands Could Greatly Accelerate Global Warming

Daniel Grossman and Dado Galdieri

The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending on whether Indigenous people want to continue to work the land.

February 04, 2020 | Nature

The Scientists Restoring a Gold-Mining Disaster Zone in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeff Tollefson

Researchers investigate notorious gold-mining zone in an effort to help the Peruvian government with what could be the largest and most complex tropical reforestation project ever undertaken.

January 06, 2020 | National Geographic

Logging Is Corrupting These Islands. One Village Fights Back—and Wins.

John Beck

The Solomon Islands archipelago is being stripped bare by foreign logging companies, in some cases acting illegally. A community takes action to preserve its future.