Environmental defenders: who are they and how do we decide if they have died in defence of their environment?
by Ben Leather, Global Witness from Environment | The Guardian on (#2WBJX)
Global Witness uses an extensive network of local contacts and other techniques to gather evidence every time a defender is reported as killed. Because so few killings happen in populous places, very few make the official list
" Read more from the environmental defenders project here. You can see the names of those who have died so far this year here
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