EIF

The Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) is a global non-profit organisation registered in France. Our project covers three main areas of activity: networking, reporting and developing our own environmental journalism resources and services.

EIF comprises an informal network of experts and investigative journalists. Its aim is to create an online space to foster new environmental reporting collaborations. The network members cover a wide range of topics and competences ranging from artificial intelligence and satellite imagery analysis to fossil fuel exploitation, water privatization or illegal wood logging.
EIF supports its members in finding funding opportunities for their investigations, scientific and journalistic expertise.

The EIF is an informal network of experts and investigative journalists. The network's aim is to create an online space to foster new collaborations in environmental reporting. Network members cover a wide range of topics and areas of expertise, including artificial intelligence, satellite imagery analysis, fossil fuel exploitation, water privatisation and illegal logging.
EIF supports its members in finding funding opportunities for their investigative projects and in accessing scientific and journalistic expertise.

Last modified:

09/04/2026

A burning flare on the side of the road in Shaikan province, Iraq.

Burning Skies: Behind Big Oil’s Toxic Flames

EU / AFRICA / MENA – Five European oil and gas majors rank among the top 10 largest polluters in Africa and the Middle East when it comes to gas flaring, reveals this investigative series. These companies include Shell, BP, ENI, TotalEnergies and Perenco, as revealed by the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) and the media network European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), Daraj Media, SourceMaterial and Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.

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ISR: Orano's Polluting Technique for Extracting Kazakh Uranium

SOZAK - Vlast and EIF's latest investigation, published in partnership with French media outlet Reporterre, focuses on the French multinational Orano (formerly Areva) and its joint venture Katco in Kazakhstan. The investigation reveals that Katco was convicted of several environmental offences between 2017 and 2021, following a 2016 audit.

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green and black map of kenya mining regions

MineAlertAfrica!

PARIS - This project was the second phase of the West Africa Mining Monitor, an open source, GIS web application that allows journalists and civil society to analyse and investigate West Africa's mining industries as a whole.

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Chibayish, Iraq. The routine gas flaring from Al Qurna, operated by Lukoil, is visible from the Central Marshes, located 60 kilometers away from the field

Oil and Gas Majors Fuelling Ecocide Worldwide

PARIS - 7,000 protected areas are under threat from oil and gas projects worldwide. 120 countries were included in the investigation data analysed by a large cross-border team of independent journalists and media outlets.

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fire in the field, a big funnel of dark smoke rising above it

Perenco Files: Black Oil in the DRC

MALELA - This investigation documents the company's environmental damage in a Mangrove natural park, foremost among which is its ground-level flaring, a practice that has been banned in the country since 2015, and which is the cause of very high CO2 emissions and very significant nuisance for agricultural activities, the main means of subsistence for the populations.

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West Africa Mining Monitor - WAMM

PARIS - WAMM is an open source, GIS, web application that allows journalists and civil society to analyse and investigate West Africa's mining industries as a whole, and not on a country by country basis.

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Supported projects

Burning Skies: Behind Big Oil’s Toxic Flames

ISR: Orano's Polluting Technique for Extracting Kazakh Uranium

MineAlertAfrica!

Oil and Gas Majors Fuelling Ecocide Worldwide

Perenco Files: Black Oil in the DRC

West Africa Mining Monitor - WAMM

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