[Assam] Fw: [andamanicobar] [Fwd: CSE Media Fellowships for India and South Asia: Climate change, forests]

Wed Aug 27 23:25:20 PDT 2008

For all the interested journalist.

Regards

Gautam Choudhury

--- On Thu, 28/8/08, Pankaj Sekhsaria <psekhsaria at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Pankaj Sekhsaria <psekhsaria at gmail.com>
Subject: [andamanicobar] [Fwd: CSE Media Fellowships for India and South Asia: Climate change, forests]
To: "Andamanicobar" <andamanicobar at yahoogroups.co.in>, nathistory-india at Princeton.EDU
Date: Thursday, 28 August, 2008, 10:50 AM

for information. ..
pankaj

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CSE Media Fellowships for India and South Asia: Climate 
change, forests
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:16:36 +0530
From: Centre for Science and Environment <media at cseindia. org>
Reply-To: media at cseindia. org
To: press at cse.org

CSE brings you two Media Fellowships in 2008

The Eighth CSE Media Fellowship

The Anatomy of Discord: Humans vs Wildlife
in Indias Forests

October 15 December 15, 2008

For some years now, Indias forests and their surrounding areas have
been witness to a continuous, low-intensity conflict between their two
primary denizens: wildlife and humans. The struggle has been for space
and for the resources that these lands offer. With reducing forest cover
and resources, humans and wildlife are being pushed to confront each
other.

Habitat for animals has shrunk, forcing them to invade human
settlements inside and around the forests, causing loss of life and
property. In turn, they become targets of retaliation killings and poaching
rings.

On the other hand, people, dependent on forests for livelihood and
sustenance, have been given a short shrift by official policy and forest
bureaucracy in its bid to protect wildlife. This has fuelled discontent, 
and
turned the forests erstwhile protectors into poachers and smugglers. In
fact, the officialdoms efforts to keep Indias wildlife habitats 
pristine by
evicting and relocating people have come to naught: in over 30 years of
wildlife management, not even 10 per cent of the families in the
countrys tiger reserves have been relocated.

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dweller (Recognition of Forest
Rights) Act, passed in 2006, has rekindled the debate: Who are our
forests for? How well do we understand human-animal conflicts and the
reasons behind them? What really has been our experience with
relocation, or with the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, till date?
What is the way out? Is coexistence a possibility or a pipe-dream in
todays conditions?

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites journalists to find
answers, by studying, investigating and reporting on The Anatomy of
Discord: Humans vs Wildlife in Indias Forests. The fellowship offers
a unique opportunity to travel to hotspots where the conflict is playing
out, look at the issues and concerns at close range, and to write and
comment on them.

Duration
Two months October 15-December 15, 2008 with one month of
travel time and another month for research, writing, and publication and
submission of stories and features.

Compensation and funding
Selected fellows will each receive a stipend of Rs 40,000 (subject to tax
deductions at source) to support research, travel and writing between
October and December 2008.

The stipend will be released in two instalments the first as a travel
grant at the start of the fellowship programme and the second after its
successful completion.

Who can apply
These fellowships are open to Indian journalists only. Working
journalists, freelancers and photojournalists are encouraged to apply.

Applications must be accompanied by the following documents:
* Curriculum vitae
* For print journalists, three samples of published work on
development issues. By published work, we mean articles
published by / in national or regional media.
* Those writing in regional languages must have at least one of
their articles translated into English.
* For television and radio journalists, two samples of telecasted /
broadcasted programmes on development issues those
telecasting / broadcasting in regional languages must also give a
short written summary of the programme along with the CDs of
the samples.
* A letter of support from the editor that the output under the
fellowship will be published / broadcast (mandatory for all
candidates, including freelancers) .
* A comprehensive fellowship proposal outlining (a) the subject/s
and story ideas that the applicant proposes to focus on, (b)
tentative travel plans and (c) a list of people who might be
interviewed.

Last date for submission of applications
September 20, 2008

Fellowships output
Selected applicants from the print media will be expected to generate
feature and news article/s totalling 5,000 words, based on the research
carried out under the fellowship. Original clippings of these articles will
have to be submitted at the completion of the fellowship programme.
They will also be expected to take and submit photographs of the areas
they travel in for their stories.

Selected applicants from the audio-visual media will be expected to
generate either a single film or a series of episodes, based on the
research carried out under the fellowships. Video and audio CDs of
these outputs will have to be submitted at the completion of the
fellowship programme.

Conditions
Fellowship grants of the fellows unable to complete and submit their
reports / outputs within the stipulated time will be withdrawn.

Note: CSE has also announced its First Media Fellowship programme
for the South Asian Region on climate change. This programme is open
to journalists from seven countries, including India. Journalists working
in India wishing to apply for both the fellowship programmes are
welcome to do so, but will have to submit separate applications for each
programme.

Applications should be addressed to:

Souparno Banerjee / Shachi Chaturvedi
Media Resource Centre
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi 110 062
Ph: 011-29955124, 29955125
Mobile: 99108 64339 / 98187 50007
Fax: 011-29955879
Emails: souparno at cseindia. org/ shachi at cseindia. org
Website: www.cseindia. org

The First CSE Media Fellowship for the South Asian Region

(for journalists in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)

Climate Change in South Asia: Indications,
Impacts
and Innovations for Survival

October 27 December 27, 2008

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal as is now evident from
observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures,
widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea
level.
Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC)

Climate change is for real. It is a truth which is becoming increasingly
difficult to deny or defy. Melting glaciers and increasing and
sometimes unexpected floods, droughts, heat waves, cold waves,
season changes, cloudbursts, storms and cyclones are only some of its
indications. Climate change is playing havoc with ecosystems, lifestyles
and livelihoods, even threatening the very survival of communities.

In January 2003, rainfall patterns altered suddenly in Lesotho, ushering
in untimely frost and severe storms that destroyed standing crops. In the
same year, an unprecedented pre-monsoon heat wave killed 1,400 in
India, while the US was hit by 562 tornadoes much higher than the
previous peak of 399 in 1992. Melting of the Arctic sea ice reached its
peak in the year 2007.

More signs are emerging. According to a 2003-04 research from the UK-
based University of Leeds and the Centre for Applied Biodiversity
Science, climate change till 2050 will place 15-37 per cent of all species
at serious risk of extinction. The IPCC has said that climate change
means greater threat to human health; for instance, studies indicate that
even a small temperature rise could lead to increased incidence of
malaria.

International food security is being threatened as well. Studies done by
the Philippines- based International Rice Research Institute indicate that
global rice yields could fall by a catastrophic 50 per cent in this century
due to rising temperatures.

And in all this, the poorer nations of the world, including those in South
Asia, are really in the crosshairs. With neither the knowledge to leapfrog
to cleaner technologies nor the money to put up with the consequences
of climate change, these nations will bear the brunt. Their only escape
would be to adapt and to innovate, to lessen the impacts.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites journalists based in
South Asia to travel, investigate, research and report on the truth of
climate change in their countries and in the South Asian region 
through the First CSE Media Fellowship for the South Asian Region:
Climate Change in South Asia: Indications, Impacts and
Innovations for Survival.

Some suggested areas of research
* Vulnerable ecosystems and people, and the impacts on them 
some interesting areas one could look at under this are
Himalayan, coastal or riverine ecosystems and communities
* Impacts on key occupations and livelihoods, such as agriculture,
across ecosystems and communities
* How is industry viewing climate change as an opportunity or as
a threat?
* Efforts and initiatives to adapt and innovate for mitigating the
impacts of climate change

Duration
Two months October 27-December 27, 2008 with one month of
travel time and another month for research, writing, and publication and
submission of stories and features.

Compensation and funding
Selected fellows will each receive a stipend of INR 50,000 (subject to tax
deductions at source) to support research, travel and writing between
October and December 2008.

The stipend will be released in two instalments the first as a travel
grant at the start of the fellowship programme and the second after its
successful completion.

Who can apply
These fellowships are open to journalists working in India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Working
journalists, freelancers and photojournalists are encouraged to apply.

Applications must be accompanied by the following documents:
* Curriculum vitae / resume
* For print journalists, three samples of published work on
development issues. By published work, we mean articles
published by / in national or regional media.
* Those writing in regional languages must have at least one of
their articles translated into English.
* For television and radio journalists, two samples of telecasted /
broadcasted programmes on development issues those
telecasting / broadcasting in regional languages must also give a
short written summary of the programme/s along with the CDs of
the samples.
* A letter of support from the editor that the output under the
fellowship will be published / broadcast (mandatory for all
candidates, including freelancers) .
* A comprehensive fellowship proposal outlining (a) the subject/s
and story ideas that the applicant proposes to focus on, (b)
tentative travel plans and (c) a list of people who might be
interviewed.

Last date for submission of applications
October 10, 2008

Fellowships output
Selected applicants from the print media will be expected to generate
feature and news article/s totalling 5,000 words, based on the research
carried out under the fellowship. Original clippings of these articles will
have to be submitted at the completion of the fellowship programme.
They will also be expected to take and submit photographs of the areas
they travel in for their stories.

Selected applicants from the audio-visual media will be expected to
generate either a single film / radio programme or a series of episodes /
programmes, based on the research carried out under the fellowships.
Video and audio CDs of these outputs will have to be submitted at the
completion of the fellowship programme.

Conditions
Fellowship grants of the fellows unable to complete and submit their
reports / outputs within the stipulated time will be withdrawn.

Note (for Indian journalists) : CSE has also announced its Eighth
Media Fellowship programme on human-wildlife conflicts, which is
exclusively for journalists working in India. Journalists wishing to apply
for both are welcome to do so, but will have to submit separate
applications for each programme.

Applications should be addressed to:

Souparno Banerjee / Shachi Chaturvedi
Media Resource Centre
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi 110 062
Land phones: 011-29955124, 29955125
Cellphones: 099108 64339 / 098187 50007
Fax: 011-29955879
Emails: souparno at cseindia. org/ shachi at cseindia. org
Website: www.cseindia. org

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