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Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year
2015-04-20 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The assassination, murder, and extrajudicial killing of environmental activists rose by 20 percent last year, according to a new grim report by Global Witness. The organization documented 116 killings in 2014 across 17 countries with the highest number in Brazil, which saw 29 environmental and land defenders killed. Still, the report is a major understatement of the problem as data across much of Africa, China, the Middle East, and Central Asia remains scarce to non-existent. "Across the world...
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