An international meeting of environmental journalists will take place this November in India. Several of the scheduled sessions are relevant to environmental coverage anywhere, while others will focus on issues facing the host country in particular the disappearance of tigers.
The International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) has scheduled its annual congress for November 21 to 24 in New Delhi. This year’s theme: "Human-Wildlife Contacts and Sustainable Development."
The congress coincides with the annual Vatavaran (or "Environment") film festival organized by the local Center for Media Studies. The festivals theme is "Forest for Life," and the films in particular will focus on wildlife issues.
Several of the congress events address India’s vanishing tigers and the human role in that phenomenon. More general sessions include a panel discussion on whether environmental journalists are a "vanishing species"; a workshop on e-journalism led by Jim Detjen, director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism; a discussion on teaching environmental journalism; and a workshop on getting environmental stories on the TV news.
