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Green groups under threat from governments and corporate actors: As climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction worsen across the globe, environmental groups are responding by ratcheting up the pressure on governments and corporations to act. Many governments have responded by increasing restrictions on environmental NGOs, including revoking charity status, increasing sentences for protestors, and passing legislation restricting NGO activity.

Indonesian fishers opposed to dredging project hit by ‘criminalization’ bid

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

In Philippines’ Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer

Deaths, arrests and protests as Philippines re-emerges from lockdown

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Iran upholds heavy sentences for conservationists convicted of spying

Two deaths trigger alarm at Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives

Iran sentences eight conservationists convicted of spying

Watchdog denounces arrests of four anti-mining activists in Indonesia

Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown

Philippine officials not spared as attacks on environmental defenders persist

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

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

Suspicions of murder in death of Indonesian environmental activist

Oil palm, cattle and coca take a toll on Colombia’s indigenous Jiw

‘Pray & continue’: Death of Philippine ranger is latest in legacy of violence

In Cambodia, a rare acquittal in a climate of danger for green activists

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Peru: Invaders claim their first victim at the Macuya Forest Investigation Center

Forests and forest communities critical to climate change solutions

Peru: Madre de Dios land defenders face trouble whether they report crimes or not

Arson attack in Indonesia leaves activist shaken

For embattled environmental defenders, a reprieve of sorts in 2018

7 convicted of killing Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres

Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders

Murder of activist in India highlights growing risk to environmental defenders

Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017

Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

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