Environmental Investigative Forum – EIF

About the network

The Environmental Investigative Forum is a global consortium of environmental investigative journalists, registered in France as a non-profit in 2020. It works on a cross-regional scale to foster innovative cross-border investigative projects, provide training to journalists and newsrooms, and develop sustainable environmental journalism tools.

EIF’s strength grows through its expanding network of individual members and external media partners worldwide. Rather than focusing on isolated reporting, the network aims to achieve structural impact by equipping journalists with advanced technological resources, data capabilities, and collaborative frameworks.

By offering free support, technical expertise, and fundraising guidance without overly complex barriers, EIF removes friction for investigative reporters, saving them time and resources while maximizing the quality and transnational impact of their reporting. Built as a global community of peers, the network draws on specialized skills and investigative strategies:

• Investigative Methods: Conducting rigorous cross-border research, document analysis, and tracking trans-continental environmental crimes.
• Advanced Specialisms: Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, OSINT, and data science to uncover hidden environmental wrongdoing.
• Collaborative Infrastructure: Offering editorial coordination, open-source reporting tools, training, and peer-to-peer networking support.

The network focuses on environmental and public-interest topics that carry direct trans-regional relevance across several core subjects:

• Climate & Environment: Investigating ecological threats, illegal extraction, pollution, and climate impacts.
• Corruption & Organized Crime: Exposing financial malfeasance, corporate accountability issues, and illegal industrial practices.
• Democracy & Politics: Strengthening transparency and holding institutional and corporate power accountable.
• Health & Social Issues: Examining public health challenges linked to environmental degradation.
• Human Rights & Migration: Tracking systemic issues affecting communities displaced or harmed by environmental projects.

Network Projects

• Perenco Investigations: An extensive cross-border investigation exposing illegal extractive processes and environmental prejudices by French oil giant Perenco in the Democratic Republic of Congo (published via partners like Disclose and Investigate Europe), which led to major legal impacts and a lawsuit against the company in France.
• Other Notable Cross-Border Works: Unlawful gas extraction in the Tunisian Sahara, and investigations into repression surrounding major crude oil pipeline projects in East Africa.

Contact

Website: https://www.eiforum.org

Contact

Website: https://www.eiforum.org
Name: EIF Team
Email: team@eiforum.org