- Program Environment
- Program Area Transforming Development Finance
- Grant Amount $100,000
- Grant Period February 1, 2015–January 31, 2017
- Location Menlo Park, CA, United States
- Geographic Focus South America
About this grant
This project supports the specialized journalism agency Mongabay.org to increase the quality and quantity of journalistic coverage of Brazilian finance of energy development in the Amazon rainforest. This project will pay particular attention to exploring the impacts of Brazilian public finance of new large-scale hydroelectric projects in the Tapajos river basin, one of the last intact river systems in the Amazon rainforest. Mongabay.org is a specialist in science and environmental reporting about tropical forests, with partnerships for dissemination of material in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.