International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ)

The IFEJ is a network and international association founded in 1993 on the initiative of French and German environmental journalists, with the participation of journalists from 28 countries.

Today, it has members, correspondents and/or member associations in more than 117 countries around the world. Directly and indirectly, this network includes around 7500 journalists associated with every type of medium, scientific authors, filmmakers, etc.

The mission of IFEJ is to improve public understanding of environment and sustainable development issues worldwide by supporting environmental journalists internationally through networking, training and promoting free access to information.

Objectives :

To identify and contact every national environmental journalists' organization and individual environmental journalists and involve them in IFEJ activities.
To reach out to parts of the world where national environmental journalists' organizations do not exist and assist colleagues in these countries to establish such organizations.
To support environmental journalists worldwide who are censored, imprisoned or harrassed for reporting about environmental issues.
To work in partnership with other institutions in organizing workshops, training seminars, bringing out publications and promoting other activities, which fulfill the IFEJ mission.