DEADLINE: Mongabay's Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program

The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program builds on Mongabay’s long-running internship program, which has helped bolster the capacity of environmental journalists in a field where such experience can be hard to acquire. Since 2008, the program has provided training and first-hand reporting experience for dozens of budding journalists in more than a dozen countries. Mongabay interns have gone on to establish careers as professional journalists, communications professionals at scientific institutions and conservation NGOs, and at Mongabay itself.

The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program will support up to 12 fellows per year — six at our global English bureau and six at our Spanish-language bureau, Mongabay-Latam.

Fellows will gain valuable experience working with a range of editors at our international news outlet, develop their environmental reporting skills, and create a portfolio of original publications that should help them advance their careers in journalism.

tarting in 2025, Mongabay’s global English bureau and Latam Spanish-language bureau will each host one six-month cohort. Each cohort will have six fellows.

The 2025 English-language fellowship will run May 1 through October 31. We will accept applications from December 15 through January 19, 2025.

Please check back soon for details on the 2025 Spanish-language program and application dates.

Each fellow will receive $500 USD a month for the duration of the six-month fellowship, or $3,000 USD in total. During that time, fellows will work directly with the fellowship editor to produce six stories. Fellows will have opportunities to collaborate with multiple Mongabay editors, including those who specialize in different areas.

Each fellow is expected to commit to engaging 10 hours a week. Each fellow is expected to produce an average of one story per month over the course of the fellowship to be published on Mongabay’s website.

Work is remote — Mongabay does not have an office and cannot support work visas.

The fellowship is open to anyone from a low- to upper-middle income tropical country, as classified by the World Bank. “High income” tropical countries, like Singapore and Australia, are excluded from the fellowship. A list of eligible countries can be found here.

Details and application.