EJN Biodiversity Fellowships 2026 for Journalists to Cover the UN Biodiversity Conference (UNCBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia – YOA

Deadline: June 29, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Biodiversity Fellowships 2026 for Journalists to Cover the UN Biodiversity Conference (UNCBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN), in partnership with NABU by way of the SYMBIOTIC Project and the Biodiversity Media Initiative, is launching a fellowship program for journalists in attending and reporting on the occasion.

This OPPORTUNITY is designed to allow journalists from low- and center-revenue nations to cowl the negotiations, and guarantee essential findings, selections and outcomes can be found and accessible to audiences past convention partitions. The fellowship will strengthen and deepen journalists’ reporting on biodiversity points and draw consideration to the widespread, catastrophic and sometimes underreported impacts of biodiversity depletion.

Costs

• EJN will cowl non-refundable financial system-class airfare, lodging, meals, journey medical insurance coverage and floor transportation prices associated to fellowship participation. Organizers will even facilitate the press accreditation course of and supply logistical assist relating to the journey. Please be aware that the technique of acquiring any essential visas is the fellow’s particular person duty, although EJN will reimburse visa prices.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the fellowship, the applicant should:

• Be knowledgeable journalist from or representing a longtime media home and reporting from a low- or center-revenue nation as labeled by the World Bank.
• Have earlier expertise reporting on biodiversity points and clearly point out the sorts of tales you would possibly pursue whereas protecting the convention.
• Be obtainable and keen to journey to Yerevan to attend COP17 in particular person, arriving on October 17 and departing no sooner than October 31, 2026.
• Have a very good command of the English language
• Share an up-to-date resume/CV
• Provide a letter of assist from an editor, producer, or supervisor who can affirm that your information reviews might be printed or broadcast in a longtime media outlet. Freelancers are welcome to apply however should present a letter of assist from a media outlet for which they intend to report.
• Provide latest, related and journalistic work samples on biodiversity subjects, which could be uploaded as paperwork or internet hyperlinks. Stories could be in any language so long as they’re accompanied by a brief English synopsis. Clips should deal with biodiversity subjects and may have been printed in the final 12 months.

Judging Criteria

They are trying for candidates who meet the following standards:

• Demonstrated expertise protecting biodiversity subjects, coverage and different environmental subjects;
• A transparent and properly-researched reporting plan for the COP, together with potential story concepts, an estimated variety of tales they’ll produce throughout the fellowship and demonstrated intention to proceed growing their plan as the COP attracts nearer;
• A relationship with a longtime media home and a signed letter of assist from an editor agreeing to publish or broadcast work produced at the COP.

EJN additionally considers the want to assemble a various cohort of journalists from several types of media homes, mediums and geographies.

Application

Applications might be accepted till June 29, 2026. Decisions might be communicated earlier than the finish of July.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to EJN Biodiversity Fellowships.