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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.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Killing of Guatemalan activist in the Maya Biosphere Reserve raises alarm

Indigenous forest activist released from prison amid Cambodian crackdown

Demands grow for a thorough investigation of Berta Cáceres’ assassination in Honduras

Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist, Berta Cáceres, is gunned down

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

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Grassroots leader’s murder in Peru is a signal to opponents of mining, son says

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Concern grows for jailed Cambodian activists amid civil rights crackdown

Forest rangers killed in Cambodia while patrolling for illegal loggers

Private conservation lands under threat in Peruvian Amazon

Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations

Nature guide freed in Madagascar 5 months after arrest for exposing rosewood trade

Activist arrested while illegal loggers chop away at Madagascar’s forests

After crackdown, protesters to march again against Ecuador’s ‘extractivism’

Harsh treatment for indigenous Botswanans ousted from Kalahari wildlife reserve

Cambodian dam proceeds despite opposition over fish, ousted villagers

Indigenous miners, leaders under threat in Colombia following killing

With assault rifles and legal hijinks, Harper’s government takes on the Canadian environment

Sea turtle conservationists attacked in Costa Rica

Militarization and murders stifle anti-mining movement in Guatemala

Damming Dissent: Community leaders behind bars in Guatemala after opposing hydro projects

Turkish government bears down on rural resistance to mining and hydro projects

New solidarity in struggle to protect Turkey’s ‘life spaces’

Amid rhinoceros poaching frenzy, dark days for South African society

‘Green’ hydropower dam fuels charges of gross human rights violations

Palm oil activist murdered in Jakarta

Mining and Energy Contracts under Investigation as Corruption Scandals Rock Guatemala

Red tape or repression? NGOs fight for a place in the new Bolivia they helped Evo Morales create

Nickel Mine, Lead Bullets: Maya Q’eqchi’ seek justice in Guatemala and Canada

Activist deported from Cambodia continues fighting dam from abroad

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