Endangered Environmentalists News

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.

Madagascar court upholds sentence for environmental activist

Vietnam’s first Goldman Prize winner pushes for energy conservation

Nephew of Maya land and rights activist beaten to death in Guatemala

For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition

Indigenous environmental activist killed in Myanmar

Six staff killed in deadliest attack at Congo’s Virunga National Park

Calls for change in handling abuse allegations at top conservation group

Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction

UN’s Tauli-Corpuz, accused of terrorism in her native Philippines, plans to keep investigating ‘atrocities’ against indigenous peoples at home

Ecuador: Sarayaku leader Patricia Gualinga defends territory despite threats

Two dozen Latin American countries sign agreement to protect environmental defenders

Indigenous women march in Ecuador, vow to ‘defend our territory’

Colombian land defenders: ‘They’re killing us one by one’

Honduras arrests alleged mastermind of Berta Cáceres’s murder

Conservationist, imprisoned for ‘spying’ with wildlife camera traps, dies in Iranian prison

Environmental defenders increasingly targeted, data shows

Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land

Vietnamese activist gets 14-year sentence for documenting chemical spill

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

Safe spaces: Tackling sexual harassment in science

More murders: Conservationists allegedly killed by soldiers in Cambodia

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

Mining concessions in Ecuador stalled over compliance with indigenous rights

Citizen journalist jailed 7 years for reporting environmental disaster in Vietnam

Madagascar environmental activist convicted, sentenced — and paroled

Another Madagascar environmental activist imprisoned

Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands

Yasuni indigenous peoples’ fight for survival depicted in new documentary

Leading ivory trade investigator slain in Tanzania

2016 was even deadlier for environmental and indigenous activists than 2015

Amid life and death risks, Brazil’s land defenders stand firm

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