Environmental journalism is the collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, and issues associated with the non-human world. Since then, journalists have formed new networks in Africa, Asia and other regions. To be an environmental journalist, one must have an understanding of scientific language. Around the world, journalists who report on environmental problems such as deforestation, pollution and climate change, are forming networks and associations.The largest of these—the Society of Environmental Journalists in the United States—was formed in 1990 and has over 1400 members. The Somali Environmental Journalists Network (SEJN) aims to bring together media professionals to increase reporting on environmental challenges and opportunities in the country.
A network of environmental journalists in Somalia – the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation - was today launched in the capital, Mogadishu.
The Earth Journalism Network is home to a professional community of environmental journalists organized at the global, regional and local level and brought together by an affinity for environmental reporting.
Internews developed the Earth Journalism Network to enable journalists from developing countries to cover the environment more effectively. The VFEJ is a forum for journalists, scientists, managers, and environmentalists to share information, expertise and experiences in environment related issues and to promote professional collaboration of environmental journalists. Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism ... echoed how environmental defenders like journalists and activists were already on the receiving end of human rights violations by the state and corporations that harm the environment. The individual needs to put to use their knowledge of historical environmental events.
We are now a truly global network with around 9,000 members from 130 countries. Environmental journalists play an important role in this effort – an effort which the Viet Nam Forum for Environmental Journalists (VFEJ) aims to support.