Nearly 2,000 Environmental Defenders Killed in Last 10 Years

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By Olivia RosaneSep 30, 2022, 2:18 pm110 pts
At a rate of every other day for the past 10 years, an environmental defender has lost their life protecting their home. That’s one sobering statistic from the latest Global Witness report “Decade of Defiance: Ten Years of Reporting Land and Environmental Activism Worldwide.” For every year since 2012,…

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