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Pictured here is Chut Wutty, a prominent Cambodian anti-logging activist, who was fatally shot after military police opened fire near a Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in Koh Kong earlier this year.

Murdered because they wanted to protect the environment

10 July, 2012

Environmental activists world wide – including community leaders and journalists – were being killed at a rate of one per week during 2011 alone, reports The Guardian. Today, the persecution of environmentalists is on the rise, as pro-oil corporate interests … Continue reading

Brazilian rainforest activist murdered

26 May, 2011

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 … Continue reading

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