2016 was even deadlier for environmental and indigenous activists than 2015

Mongabay
Jul 13, 2017, 5:26 pm96 pts
Last year, London-based NGO Global Witness published a report that showed 2015 was the deadliest year for defenders of the environment since the group started tracking killings of activists in 2002. But that record didn’t last long, as the number of environmental and indigenous activists murdered in 2016 was…

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