CAMIC
CAMIC is an environment & climate media initiative designed by Nature News; Africa’s leading independent media platform on environment, climate change and sustainability; to critically analyze the continent’s climate & environment development trajectory, safeguard its ecology and environment through media training, technical media production, advocacy programmes, research and development.
Our workshops offer the best possible learning experience, taking into account real-life experiences, topical water & environmental issues such as; biodiversity, renewable energies, sustainable developments, pollution, natural disasters, environmental policies etc.
To be the most valuable media brand on the environment and climate change.
To stimulate global action on climate change and sustainable earth in Africa.
NatureNews and its subsidiary CAMIC were founded on the principles of free speech as guaranteed by the United Nations in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, which was proclaimed by UN General Assembly, UNGA, via Resolution 217A of December 10, 1948.
CAMIC is an environment & climate media initiative designed by Nature News to present a unique opportunity for Journalists and media practitioners, as it is designed to elevate the practice of environmental reporting and sustainability in Africa.
Africa has been steadily falling behind other continents in safeguarding its ecosystem and environment losing nearly 90 percent of its major surface water sources to pollution and encroachment. Climate change is definitely taking a severe toll through a spate of devastating extreme weather conditions across the continent.
The whole essence of CAMIC is to open up the space for media practitioners in Africa to be re-educated to meet up with modern realities on the environment, climate change and sustainability as an effort to join the global combat of climate change.
Environmental reporting is the best way to raise awareness about climate change as an aware society is the best weapon against climate change. This is where environmental journalists play a crucial role; by informing and raising awareness among the people, and helping the decision makers take informed decisions on the environment.
To meet up with these emerging realities, CAMIC have made adequate plans to organize regional training programmes across Africa to build capacity and competence of environmental journalists to tackle the daunting expectations on environmental accountability, transparency and the proven impact value of funded work programmes.
For Africa to catch up with current developments in environment and climate change, the media has to be well-equipped for robust engagement just as governments, international organizations and other critical stakeholders.
This course covers the essentials of Environmental Reporting, which is raising climate change awareness the best way, and cuts across the seven main types of environmental journalism; Ecology, Climate, Sustainability, Renewable Energies, Wild-Life Conservation, Desertification, Water Resources & Sanitation.
The workshop, as designed, will also help to task participants’ intelligence in news gathering, evaluation and reporting. The course is designed to enable participants to horn their skills and reinvent themselves for developing journalism skills through the following:
- undergoing a step-by-step learning process; and,
- Completing tasks (practical exercises) related to what they learn towards deepening their understanding of the process.
