EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Covering Great Apes and One Health in Africa 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 26, 2025

Applications are open for the EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Covering Great Apes and One Health in Africa 2025. EJN is internet hosting a digital media workshop in early May for environmental journalists in vary international locations in Africa searching for to report on the threats confronted by nice apes, notably the impression of illness and different well being issues, in addition to conservation methods to guard these species and their habitats.

Journalists who take part in the workshop will:

• Gain a greater understanding of the ailments threatening each wild and captive apes, with explicit focus on how tourism, industrial improvement, pure disasters and analysis exercise impression ape well being.
• Learn extra about One Health on the human-ape interface and how defending nice apes and their habitats is crucial not just for the species’ personal survival but in addition for the effectively-being of ecosystems and human communities worldwide.
• Understand the most recent analysis efforts, moral issues and scientific findings associated to nice ape well being and welfare.
• Learn about how ape well being is managed in areas the place people and nice apes efficiently coexist.
• Become extra aware of nationwide and worldwide insurance policies and treaties associated to nice ape conservation – and the challenges in implementing them.

Themes

The classes, structured as part-presentation and part-discussion, will focus on the challenges to nice ape well being and welfare, One Health approaches to nice ape conservation, and moral issues associated to the conservation of untamed and captive apes. Storytelling strategies and methods to enhance viewers engagement will probably be explored.

Journalists will study from researchers, policymakers and native communities working in the sphere of nice ape conservation. They may have the OPPORTUNITY to develop their story concepts, change sources and assets for his or her reporting and community with their friends. The ultimate agenda of the workshop will probably be shared with chosen individuals in April 2025.

Benefits

• To guarantee these workshops are accessible, EJN will supply a restricted variety of communications stipends to these with an unstable web connection in distant areas. Indicate in your application whether or not you’ll require a communications stipend to make sure Wi-Fi connectivity through the coaching.
• Participants who attend all classes will obtain a certificates of completion from EJN.
• Participants who attend all three days of the workshop may also be eligible to apply for a narrative grant to supply journalistic work following the workshop, which will probably be awarded to as much as 8 journalists.

Eligibility

• Applicants could be from vary international locations in Africa; i.e. international locations the place the good apes dwell in their pure habitats: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. 
• For the needs of this coaching alternative, they may solely be accepting purposes in English and French. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to think about purposes in different languages presently. Applicants should have a working understanding of English or French to take part in and totally profit from the workshop. Simultaneous English to French interpretation will probably be supplied.
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio) and different media practitioners with expertise protecting conservation and/or One Health points. 
• They welcome purposes from freelance reporters and workers from all kinds of media organizations—group-primarily based, native nationwide and worldwide. They particularly encourage girls, rural, Indigenous and early-profession journalists to apply.
• Applicants are required to be clear about the usage of generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the precise to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, submitting AI-generated content material as their very own. 

Application

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For extra info, go to EJN Virtual Media Workshop.