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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

53 indigenous activists on trial for police-protester massacre in Peru

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2014

Costa Rican environmentalist pays ultimate price for his dedication to sea turtles

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2013

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Cambodia drops case of murdered forest activist, Chut Wutty

Jeremy Hance 8 Oct 2012

Another journalist attacked in Cambodia for covering illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2012

Environmental journalist investigating illegal logging murdered in Cambodia

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2012

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2012

Cambodia suspends economic land concessions

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2012

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