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‘Guardian of the Forest’ ambushed and murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 2 Nov 2019

‘Weird’ police probe rules Indonesian activist died in drink-driving crash

Ayat S. Karokaro 15 Oct 2019

Suspicions of murder in death of Indonesian environmental activist

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Oct 2019

Latin America saw most murdered environmental defenders in 2018

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Aug 2019

3 massacres in 12 days: Rural violence escalates in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 8 Apr 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo — translator 28 Dec 2018

For embattled environmental defenders, a reprieve of sorts in 2018

Taran Volckhausen 24 Dec 2018

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018
A spectacled bear in the rehabilitation and reintroduction program at Chaparrí. Photo by Matthew Weaver.

Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders

Matthew Weaver, Rajmonda Rexhi 9 Nov 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

Criminalization and violence increasingly used to silence indigenous protest, according to UN report

Mike Gaworecki 11 Sep 2018

Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Robbery or retribution? Police investigate death of prominent conservationist in Kenya

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

More murders: Conservationists allegedly killed by soldiers in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Jan 2018

Colombian community leader allegedly murdered for standing up to palm oil

Taran Volckhausen 15 Dec 2017

Environmental lawyer killed in the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 21 Feb 2017
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

In Latin America, environmentalists are an endangered species

Lindsay Fendt 11 Aug 2016
Red passion vine flower in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Heavy toll for green and indigenous activists among Colombian killings

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 15 Jul 2016

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016

Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Battling India’s Sand Barons

Sibi Arasu 11 May 2016

Colombia’s palm oil boom marred by bloody past and violent present

Greg Norman 5 Jan 2016

Indigenous miners, leaders under threat in Colombia following killing

Sandra Cuffe 10 Aug 2015

Militarization and murders stifle anti-mining movement in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Jul 2015

Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2015

Anti-mining activist shot dead in Guatemala

Jeremy Hance 13 Apr 2015

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

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