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Mining the Seti River.

Climate of fear persists among Nepal’s eco defenders as threats rise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jun 2023
Lúcio Tembé, chief of the Turé-Mariquita village in Tomé-Açu, northeastern Pará.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched

Karla Mendes 16 May 2023
Ceremony in homage to those assassinated during the national strike of June 2022.

Latin America had the most attacks on environmental defenders in 2022, says report

Juan Carlos Granados, Pilar Puentes 5 May 2023
Activists donned masks bearing the face of slain environmentalist Chut Wutty while demonstrating in Phnom Penh.

Cambodian activists commemorate 11th anniversary of Chut Wutty’s murder

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2023

Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 21 Apr 2023
Eduardo Mendúa

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

Ana Cristina Alvarado 17 Apr 2023
Chief Patiburi Pataxó stands on the beach of the reclaimed Quero-Ver community.

Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders

Sarah Sax, Hanna Wallis 31 Mar 2023
Karen men walk with their elephants.

‘You don’t kill people to protect forests’: New Thai parks chief raises alarm

Kannikar Petchkaew 27 Feb 2023
A member of the Pataxó community.

Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office

Karla Mendes 20 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Murdered Belize environmentalist helped boost marine conservation through technology

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Indigenous demonstration in Brasília

Indigenous Brazilians demand justice as 4 killed in escalating violence

Karla Mendes 12 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022

Crime and no punishment: Impunity shrouds killings of Indigenous Amazonian defenders

Vanessa Romo Espinoza and Gloria Alvitres 17 Aug 2022
Indigenous people from Pará and Amapá

Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

Sandra Cuffe 15 Jul 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022

More than half of activists killed in 2021 were land, environment defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Apr 2022

Honduras bans open-pit mining, citing environmental and public health concerns

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2022

Conservation deaths in 2021

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2021

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Carol Sánchez 13 Dec 2021

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Guilherme Henrique, Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 10 Nov 2021

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2021

Killings, invasions escalate in fight for land in Brazil’s Maranhão state

Juliana Ennes 15 Jul 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2021

Paid in Blood: Standing up to private interests often turns deadly in Brazil

Yessenia Funes 14 Jun 2021

Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2021

Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Ana Ionova 13 Apr 2021

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