Parcival Weijnen is a Dutch freelance investigative journalist. 

He is also co-founder of Investigative Collective Spit, a non-profit cooperative consisting of freelance investigative journalists in the Netherlands.

His topics include writing on corruption, tax havens, fisheries, environmental issues, government, etc.

His stories have been featured in De Groene Amsterdammer, Vrij Nederland, Trouw, Zembla, Argos, and various broadcasters and newspapers for local media.

Parcival Weijnen

Basic information

Name
Parcival Weijnen
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
Corruption & Ecology
Country
Netherlands
City
Amsterdam
Links

Supported projects

Is the North Sea being plundered?

  • Environment
  • Fishing industry
  • Industry

IJMUIDEN - After pulse fishing was banned by the European Parliament in 2018, many Dutch fishermen switched to flyshooting. However, flyshoot fishing mainly targets species for which there is too little data to manage stocks properly. These are not subject to quotas and fishermen can take them out of the sea without limit. And that is a recipe for overfishing.

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More Dutch cattle farmers move to Belgium since nitrogen crisis

  • Agriculture
  • Cities
  • Environment

Since the start of the nitrogen crisis in 2018, more Dutch livestock farmers moved to Belgium than in previous years. This is evident from new research by Spit and Apache. Environmental organisations have been warning for some time that Belgium has become a 'nitrogen paradise' for large-scale polluters. An inventory of the available data supports this fear.

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European Fish Fraud in Namibia

  • Corruption
  • Fishing industry
  • Tax evasion

A Dutch fishing giant is involved in a corruption affair and tax evasion scheme concerning fishing quotas in Namibia. The money trail goes via Poland and Iceland.

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