Posted on 06/20/2016 12:01:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A London-based advocacy group said Monday it documented 185 killings of environmental activists around the world last year, nearly 60 percent more than in 2014 and the highest since it began collecting data dating back to 2002.
In a newly released report, Global Witness said Brazil topped the 16-country list with 50 environmental defenders slain in 2015, followed by the Philippines with 33 and Colombia with 26. The group says 116 were slain worldwide in 2014.
Last year “was the deadliest year on record for killings of land and environmental defenders — people struggling to protect their land, forests and rivers,” the report said. …
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Trump’s fault!
Environments don’t be poking around other peoples’ business.
Don’t EF with another Man’s/Woman’s Property!
Aren’t environmentalists for population reduction?
Finally—Some good news.
Sorry for the families, but meddlers............... Radical left wing enviro terrorists perhaps. But it has nothing to do with the environment.
How could that be?
I thought everyone knows it was all Bush's fault.
What a strange statistic - “killing of environmentalists?”
So this is a new politically-correct class now?
agribusiness companies, loggers and landowners
Darwin?
Oh, is the SeaShepard still afloat? I believe their activities border on the edge of high seas piracy.
I’ll worry about that when people are not being killed and brutalized by the muz and illegal aliens
I personally want to know why so few die...
There are whole sets of them that go out sailing the ocean and actively harass shipping while flying the Jolly Rodger... any ship on the seas can sink them under international law legally because they sail under that flag.
Does that mean environmentalists will be added to the endangered species list?
LOL.well in some countries the punishment for heresy is death and politically correct environmentalism is heresy against the truth
There are horrible environmental abuses in the world. But I suspect these people were killed for interfering in drug plantations or threatening peoples' livelihoods.
There’s a bag limit?
Who knew!
;-)
(How many thousands of capitalists were killed last year by communists? Multiples of the environmentalists, but no article was written...)
Must be global warming, a matter of natural selection or just extinction - in the normal order of things...
“I thought everyone knows it was all Bush’s fault.”
You are so last decade!
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