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Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002
2014-04-15 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: At least 908 people were murdered for taking a stand to defend the environment between 2002 and 2013, according to a new report today from Global Witness, which shows a dramatic uptick in the murder rate during the past four years. Notably, the report appears on the same day that another NGO, Survival International, released a video of a gunman terrorizing a Guarani indigenous community in Brazil, which has recently resettled on land taken from them by ranchers decades ago. According to the report,...
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