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.

Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year

Anti-mining activist shot dead in Guatemala

Kenya crackdown on terrorism threatens NGOs, wildlife, media

Indonesia’s indigenous people still suffer human rights violations, says report

Cambodia deports activist leader…then suspends controversial dam

Mining activist released after being charged with terrorism, rebellion in Ecuador

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up to big oil – and won

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Another environmental journalist killed in Cambodia

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

4 Ashaninka tribesmen killed by loggers in Peru

Greenpeace alleges SLAPP suit tactic by logging company

After throwing out referendum, Ecuador approves oil drilling in Yasuni’s embattled heart

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

Special Report: Lake Toba indigenous people fight for their frankincense forest

Dangerous work: how one man empowered communities and stopped a coal mine

Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002

Australia proposes banning environmental boycotts

Clash with palm oil company leaves one indigenous community member dead in Sumatra

Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Flawed from inception? Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative threatened indigenous groups with simple mapping errors

Russia charges imprisoned Greenpeace protestors with hooliganism, instead of piracy

Russia charges non-violent activists with ‘piracy’ for protesting Arctic oil drilling

Only suspect in Cambodian journalist’s murder acquitted

Anti-mining activist from Indonesia wins top green honor

Cambodia drops case of murdered forest activist, Chut Wutty

Another journalist attacked in Cambodia for covering illegal logging

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Assassinated forest activist Chut Wutty: ‘I want to see people live with freedom’

Forest activist shot dead in Cambodia allegedly over photos of illegal logging

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