In the past 10 years, an environmental activist somewhere in the world was killed every two days. In 2021, three-quarters of such murders were perpetrated in Central America.
of the world’s population. In Brazil, since the group started tracking the deaths of land defenders in 2012, 343 people have been killed, with 83 percent of them dying in the Amazon.
Besides Brazil and Mexico, the deadliest countries for environmental activists were Columbia, Honduras, and the Philippines. Hines told: “This is a global problem, but it is almost exclusively happening in the Global South. Corruption and inequality are two kinds of key enabling factors for the killings.” As an example, she cites the land titling process, where companies and corrupt officials can make investment deals.
People of color often have the least control over the environments their livelihoods depend upon, and tend to be the people most negatively affected by climate change. But they are also leading the charge to save the land and water they subsist on.
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