EJN Story Grants to Report on Asia’s Endangered Apes 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 19, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Story Grants to Report on Asia’s Endangered Apes 2026. As part of EJN’s Empowering Media for the Conservation of Apes in Africa and Asia, they may award up to 10 story grants to journalists in Asian vary nations looking for to report on the threats confronted by apes (within the wild and in captivity), and the conservation options that have to be scaled to safeguard animal, human and environmental well being within the years to come. This undertaking is supported by the Arcus Foundation.

They welcome story concepts that focus on the next themes, together with, however not restricted to:  

• The threats to each wild and captive apes, with specific focus on industrial and agricultural improvement, fragmented forest, unlawful commerce and poaching;
• Participatory and science-based mostly conservation efforts and different tried-and-examined options to safeguard ape well being and welfare;
• National and worldwide legal guidelines, insurance policies and treaties associated to ape conservation—and the challenges in implementing them;
• The position of protected areas, nationwide parks and different reserves in mitigating dangers to ape well being wellbeing and preserving ecosystems;
• Zoonotic spillover and One Health on the human-ape interface, i.e. tales that join the dots between human well being, animal well being and environmental well being. 

Grants

• They anticipate to award up to 10 grants with budgets of up to US$1,500 every. 

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be from one of many following 9 gibbon- and/or orangutan-vary nations in Asia: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
• Preference might be given to those that accomplished the workshop.
• For the needs of this OPPORTUNITY, they may solely be accepting functions in English. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to think about functions in different languages at the moment.
• Groups of journalists are inspired to apply. However, the application have to be made within the identify of 1 lead applicant. Lead candidates are answerable for speaking with EJN and receiving funds on the group’s behalf, if awarded.
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio) and different media practitioners with expertise masking conservation points.
• They welcome functions from early-profession journalists and skilled reporters with a observe report of masking conservation points. Applications from freelance reporters and employees from all forms of media organizations—worldwide, nationwide, native and group-based mostly are eligible. They particularly encourage ladies, rural and/or Indigenous and early-profession journalists to apply. 
• They welcome functions from freelance reporters and employees from all forms of media organizations—group-based mostly, native nationwide and worldwide. The grant can fund journey prices, reporter stipends, multimedia components and extra. Besides funding, grantees will obtain 1-1 editorial mentorship from an skilled journalist and coaching on how to repackage their reporting for social media to attain a wider viewers.
• Applicants are required to be clear about the usage of generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the best 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. 

Note: For the needs of this grant alternative, they’re unable to settle for letters of assist from Mongabay as a result of they’re already a beneficiary of the Arcus Foundation, who can also be supporting this program. Applicants are inspired to search assist from different media shops (worldwide, nationwide, native and group-based mostly) in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio).

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to EJN Story Grants.