Murdered land activist adds to rising death toll in Brazil's Amazon

Anti-palm oil campaigner Nazildo dos Santos Brito is the third victim in four weeks as land conflicts increase in the country's Pari state

Brazil's Amazonian state of Pari has added to its reputation as a killing ground for land activists with the murder of an anti-palm oil campaigner.

Nazildo dos Santos Brito - a leader of a Quilombo Afro-Brazilian community formed by runaway slaves - was killed at the weekend. It was the third assassination in four weeks in the north-eastern corner of the state, which also saw more killings over territory and the environment than any other last year.