Ecological Reporters

With the second largest Amazon country in Latin America, Peru is home to extraordinary natural riches: more than 3000 species of butterflies, 1,000 different bird types, 2,000 vascular plant species, 13 species of primates and more than 100 types of bats. Although this country is also home to scores of innovative projects and initiatives to protect and sustainably manage the Peruvian environment, some of them working successfully by private companies and other NGOs or state organisms, most of them are unknown for the general population.

On the other hand, various human activities, from logging and hydrocarbon exploration to un-managed tourism, threaten Peru's biodiversity and envorinment, also unknown.

We designed the project Ecological Reporters with the objective of increasing, in a national and international level, the media coverage of environmental, ecological and biodiversity issues in Peru.

To accomplish this, the project would consist of forming a highly mobile and specialized four-person team: two ecological reporters, capable of immediately travelling to wherever an important event occurs in order to obtain first hand information, digital photos and video footage, as well as perform training workshops; and two other persons ready to receive the audiovisual material and the information in Lima, taking charge of it´s fast clasification.

Once in Lima, the four team members will be in charge of placing the material in established systems of mass communication, such as written press, radio and TV.