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One environmental activist is killed each week while trying save the Amazon rainforest

2014-06-15 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: No one could accuse Nilcilene Miguel de Lima of being easily afraid. When loggers beat her and burned down her home in Lábrea in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon the environmental activist refused to give up her struggle. When they killed her dog and frightened away the armed guards who had been sent to protect her, she carried on without them. But after they murdered her fellow campaigners and warned her she would be next, the mother of four finally fled. Today, she is in hiding hundreds...

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