# taz.de -- Workshop of the taz Panter Foundation: Green Panter Amazonia
       
       > Constructive reporting: The taz Panter Foundation is organizing an
       > international climate journalism workshop with ten journalists from the
       > Amazon region.
       
       [1][taz Panter Foundation] | The Amazon rainforest plays a crucial role in
       regulating the global climate. It remains one of the Earth´s most important
       CO₂ sinks. Encouragingly, deforestation has recently declined—at least in
       the Brazilian part of the Amazon. However, studies suggest that the region
       could transform into savannah in the medium term, which would have serious
       global climate consequences.
       
       Public attention will return to the Amazon by November at the latest, when
       COP 30—the UN Climate Change Conference—takes place in Belém, Brazil, at
       the mouth of the Amazon River. At a time when climate protection and
       climate journalism are under growing pressure around the world, even as the
       climate crisis intensifies, the taz Panter Foundation is launching the
       international workshop Green Panter Amazonia.
       
       We have invited ten journalists from eight countries in the Amazon region –
       Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
       We will first have a series of webinars with our colleagues from Brazil and
       Latin America, and then in person for a project week in Berlin in
       September. There, they will meet representatives from academia, civil
       society, and the media to exchange ideas and network.
       
       ## Mental health for climate journalists
       
       The webinars will cover key topics such as the role of international
       corporations in the Amazon, the significance of carbon credit trading for
       local climate protection, and the spread of organized crime in the region.
       Other focal points include environmental racism, mental health, stress and
       trauma management for frontline climate journalists, and the impact of
       climate reporting—and how it can be improved.
       
       The participants will write articles sharing their perspectives on the
       Amazon´s climate crisis and potential solutions. For us, climate reporting
       also means highlighting constructive approaches. You can read the first of
       their articles online (in German) under the focus section “Amazonia in
       Focus” on [2][taz.de]. More of their articles will appear on Friday,
       September 12, in an eight-page supplement in the taz.
       
       One day later, on Saturday, September 13, our ten guests from Latin America
       and Brazil will travel to Berlin for the taz cooperative meeting and a
       project week. On Wednesday, September 17 (7 p.m.), you can finally meet our
       colleagues in person at a planned public event in the taz canteen in
       Berlin.
       
       The project is led by journalist Niklas Franzen and Ole Schulz from the taz
       Panter Foundation. 
       
       Green Panter Amazonia is supported by the Federal Foreign Office, the
       Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), Misereor and the
       Umverteilen Foundation.
       
       12 May 2025
       
       ## LINKS
       
 (DIR) [1] /panter-stiftung/vom-wort-zur-tat/!v=e4eb8635-98d1-4a5d-b035-a82efb835967/
 (DIR) [2] /Amazonien-im-Fokus/!t6100300
       
       ## AUTOREN
       
 (DIR) Niklas Franzen
 (DIR) Ole Schulz
       
       ## ARTIKEL ZUM THEMA