Do you want to:

• Get trained in skills from investigative journalism?
• Help uncover environmental crime and corruption?
• Meet likeminded people?

And are you:

• Between 16 and 25 years old?
• Based in Skåne or Västra Götaland, or close by?

Then you might be our next environment detective! 

What is it?

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 last year, it will be similar, but with a more local politics focus, and without the fish farming!

What will it involve?

We will start with a training bootcamp in Lund on March 20th-22nd, 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 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. 

Why take part?

Besides making a difference and meeting cool people, this will also be great experience for anyone who wants to work with research, journalism or campaigning!