Entries invited for 2010 Environmental Media Awards

Journalists reporting on environmental issues are invited to submit entries to the 2010 Media Awards, co-funded by Thomson Reuters Foundation, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and the COMplus Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development. The deadline for entries is 31 July 2010.

The worldwide competition is designed to raise global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues by encouraging the highest standards in environmental reporting. Six regional winners each receive a cash prize of USD $500 while the global winner will be awarded USD $5000 and a travel grant to attend the award ceremony which will be held in Nagoya, Japan in October this year, at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The six regions are Latin America, North America (including the Caribbean and Oceania), Europe, Asia (including the Middle East), English-speaking Africa, and French-speaking Africa. Each candidate may submit one article only, which must have been published between 11 June 2008 and 31 July 2010. Entries can be in any language but if it is other than English, French or Spanish, a translation must also be supplied. The contest is aimed at journalists working in print and online media and winners will be selected by a panel of environmental and media experts.

Since the launch of the competition in 1998, the work of at least 50 reporters has received recognition, with previous winners coming from countries as diverse as Argentina and Burkina Faso, Canada and China, Macedonia and Togo - and more than a dozen others.

Entry forms and further information can be found on the IUCN website.