Environmental Defenders

EJF partners and supports grassroots environmental defenders helping them speak truth to power and have their voices heard. We provide essential equipment including drones and micro cameras alongside targeted training that helps to document, expose and end environmental abuses and defend human rights. We focus on empowering women and youth and Indigenous communities, and train journalists to report on environmental injustices. Together we bring unseen issues to the attention of change makers.

We aim to strengthen grassroots environmental leadership. Our programme is committed to delivering bespoke training, equipment and support to grassroots activists, journalists and Indigenous peoples helping to ensure their voices are heard and acted upon.

From global heating to the loss of biomes and biodiversity, people on the frontlines of environmental destruction are the first to suffer the loss of their basic human rights - to home, livelihoods, food and fresh water. Bearing witness to the threats to the natural world, they are also best placed to document and articulate their concerns and secure corrective actions.

EJF works with, and for, these frontline communities and activists to document environmental abuses, and take these local fights to the very heart of governments and businesses across the world.