On September 29, Global Witness published a report about environmental defenders and activists that contains information about individuals who have been targeted and murdered for their actions defending natural resources and the environment. The organization sheds light on the stories of these whistleblowers, collates data on murders of environmental defenders around the world, and provides recommendations on how to strengthen protections for environmental whistleblowers and, in turn, protect our planet.
“We are not just in a climate emergency. We are in the foothills of the sixth mass extinction, and these defenders are some of the few people standing in the way,” writes Dr. Vandana Shiva in the report’s forward. Dr. Shiva, an environmental defender herself, states that “[t]he future of our species, and our planet,” depends on environmental defenders having protections. “In 2021, 200 people were killed protecting their homes and their rights. I urge you to read all their names. To honour the dead with your attention. To get angry on their behalf, and then to act,” she writes.
The report first bears witness to environmental defenders who were murdered in 2021, with a list of their names and home countries. According to Global Witness, 200 environmental defenders were murdered last year.
Interspersed with statistics about murders of environmental defenders and the industries they were trying to fight in service of...
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