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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.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Ex-mine security head cleared of murder, assault against indigenous Guatemalans

Environmental lawyer killed in the Philippines

Attacks on journalists in Myanmar highlight complications, dangers for the media

Journalist murdered while investigating illegal logging in Myanmar

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Peru’s Goldman Prize winner Máxima Acuña denounces attack

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

Greenpeace firefighters attacked by armed men in Russia

Dam opponents claim criminalization by Ecuadorian government

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

In Latin America, environmentalists are an endangered species

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Heavy toll for green and indigenous activists among Colombian killings

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free

Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Deadliest year on record for environmental activists

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians (commentary)

Battling India’s Sand Barons

Kenya’s forests squeezed as government pressures environment groups

Cambodia declares protected area in hotly contested Prey Lang forest

5 wildlife rangers shot – 3 killed – by poachers in Congo park

Spanish enviros threatened by government and economically stressed citizens

India’s “environmentalism of convenience” threatens forest-dwellers’ rights

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Four get maximum sentence for murder of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Killing of Guatemalan activist in the Maya Biosphere Reserve raises alarm

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