Posts Tagged ‘attack’

• Amazon loggers captured a young tribe girl and burned her alive

  Loggers in Brazil have reportedly burned a young tribe girl alive in an effort to scare the local indigenous population from its land. The girl, who the Telegraph report was around the age of eight, came from one of Amazon’s …

• Brazilian rainforest activist murdered

  The Guardian reports that the famous Amazon rainforest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva has been killed in an ambush near his home in Brazil. Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned …

• Attack on critical mass in Brazil

  Last week an angry motorist mowed down a large group of bicyclists who participated in a critical mass event in Porto Alegre, Brazil (see video below). According to the Urban Country the attack left at least 15 riders injured and …

• Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists in Russia

  As seen on Global Voices: Russia: Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists From 20 to 40 young people in white masks attacked the camp of the defenders of the Khimki forest park [RUS], Igor Podgorny [RUS] and Novaya …

• Watch: Greenpeace activist violently attacked by bluefin tuna fishermen

  John Hocevar, from Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior, writes about the assault on the Greenpeace staff blog: “We are in Valletta Harbor in Malta. We learned that there were two vessels here owned by Fuentes, the tuna tycoon who controls …

• Environmental activists violently attacked by timber workers

  Peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, have been violently attacked by timber workers as they were blocking the road for them. The timber workers attacked the car that the protestors were using to block …