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Suspected totoaba poachers shot by authorities in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2019

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

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

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

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018
Berta Cáceres. Image by UN Environment - ONU Brasil via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

7 convicted of killing Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

‘No one is helping us’: Venezuelan conservation crippled by crisis

Nora Ward 14 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

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Nathan Siegel 8 Oct 2018

Amid ongoing evictions, Kenya’s Sengwer make plans to save their ancestral forest

Anthony Langat 24 Sep 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 11 Sep 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018

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

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Honduras arrests alleged mastermind of Berta Cáceres’s murder

Mongabay 7 Mar 2018

Honduran politicians, US aid implicated in killings of environmentalists

Sandra Cuffe 1 Feb 2017

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016
Javari Valley Indigenous reserve

Endangered Environmentalists

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2016

Forest rangers killed in Cambodia while patrolling for illegal loggers

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2015

Police investigate villager’s murder in pulp and paper concession

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2015

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

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Chinese luxury furniture linked to murder, near extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

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