Environment detectives 2026
What is Environment Detectives?
During 2026, we’re running a special project ahead of the Swedish elections that’s all about holding decision makers accountable and exposing environmental wrongdoing. We’re calling it ’Environment Detectives’.
If you were following our Fishy Farming investigation in 2025, it will be similar, but with a more local politics focus, and without the fish farming!
The project is local, and focuses on people between 16-25 in Skåne and Västra Götaland
People enrolled in the project will:
- Get trained in skills from investigative journalism
- Help uncover environmental crime and corruption
- Get their investigation published in a special edition of Fältbiologen
You can no longer sign up for Environment Detectives. But you can still join our open webinars (see calendar for next meeting)
Open online webinars
The project also host open online webinars for all members. You find the webinars in our calendar
About the project
- We will start with a training bootcamp 20-22 March, where you will get a crash course in many of the different methods and skills investigative journalists use to uncover environmental and political wrongdoing.
- Then, we will form two local groups (in Skåne and Västra Götaland), and will decide together what we want to investigate, with guidance from the project leader. That could be, for example, a forestry company, a new mine, a nature area that is being polluted or destroyed, a government policy… anything the group is interested in and thinks is important.
- We’ll meet every two weeks through the spring to do field visits, interviews and to gather evidence. Along the way, we will also have open workshops with experienced investigative journalists that cover different skills and methods.
- In June we will have a writing retreat to put our story together, before publishing in time for the Swedish elections.
- The project runs from march to september 2026
Frances Mills
Project Leader
Do you have any quesions, please contact me
