Ecostorm is the leading international investigative agency specialising in environmental, human rights and animal welfare issues. We work on behalf of pressure groups to gather information and visual material for use in their campaigns, and undertake assignments directly for the media, both print and broadcast.

For NGOs

Ecostorm offers a unique and comprehensive range of professional research and investigation services tailored specifically to meet the needs of campaign groups.

Our services include:

  • Campaign film production
  • Investigations - planning and execution
  • Training

For The Media

Ecostorm collaborates directly with the print and broadcast media, supplying unique footage, photos and information, and regularly breaking news stories globally.

We offer:

  • Researchers / producers to develop and manage media assignments
  • Video reporters / camera operators (DV)
  • Covert camera operators / investigators for undercover assignments

Undercover in Bosnia – how Dutch subsidies prop up intensive farming

Radar, a top current affairs program in Holland, this week carried footage from an Ecostorm investigation in Bosnia examining Dutch subsidies for factory farming systems. Filming undercover, our team of investigators were able to document cruelty at the nation’s biggest farm and a brutal agricultural system that could spread across the country. Reaction to the [...]

The great carbon con – the true cost of offsetting

It is meant to be supporting ’sustainable development’ but the UN’s flagship carbon trading scheme is failing, according to an investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit. On the eve of the Durban climate change talks in December, investigators travelled to Madhya Pradesh in central India to document the impact of a new coal power plant, [...]

How Mexico’s poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis

A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas – a sacred staple in Mexico – and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country’s poor. As part of a major report examining food speculation the Ecologist Film Unit travelled to Mexico to investigate.
The Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) is [...]