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Environmental reporting can help protect citizens in emerging democracies

  • Written by Eric Freedman, Professor of Journalism and Chair, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University
Caucasus mountains in Svaneti, northwest Georgia.Polscience/Wikimedia

What happens when an illegally logged tree falls or poachers kill endangered brown bears in the forest, but there’s no journalist to report it?

That’s the situation in the Republic of Georgia, which faces challenges that include poaching, deteriorating air quality,...

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