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908 Environmentalists Have Been Murdered in Brazil, Many Elsewhere As Well
Chico Mendes, Santos Rodrigues, Ohio nun Dorothy Stang are some of the nearly 1000 environmentalists murdered in Brazil by cattle ranchers, loggers, and other financial interests.
The group Global Witness lists 32 countries in which environmentalists have been killed. Mexico has seen at least 40 activists murdered.
908 Brazilian Environmentalists Murdered
In 32 countries environmentalists have been murdered
http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/bloodtimber/?gclid=CIb_tf2LzMcCFYU
Mexico has had 40 environmentalists murdered in a few years' time
http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/commentary/hundreds-of-environm
Santos Rodrigues murdered August 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3212301/Police-investig
Why They Killed Chico Mendes
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/books/why-they-killed-chico-mendes.htm
Brazil's JBS is now the world's biggest cow butcher
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/04/15/report_finds_908_enviro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/27/why-are-bra/
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/eighth-amazon-activist
Shell pays 15.5 million settlement for its part in murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian environmental activist
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm#.VeB2afn4_bg
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000hXGlxHwQOCA/s/750/001228-01.j
Dorothy Stang, Dayton Ohio nun, murdered
http://cdn.ipsnoticias.net/wp-content/uploads/101428-20120822.jpg
https://www.globalwitness.org/reports/bloodtimber/?gclid=...
908 Brazilian Environmentalists Murdered
In 32 countries environmentalists have been murdered
http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/bloodtimber/?gclid=CIb_tf2LzMcCFYU
Mexico has had 40 environmentalists murdered in a few years' time
http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/commentary/hundreds-of-environm
Santos Rodrigues murdered August 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3212301/Police-investig
Why They Killed Chico Mendes
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/books/why-they-killed-chico-mendes.htm
Brazil's JBS is now the world's biggest cow butcher
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/04/15/report_finds_908_enviro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/27/why-are-bra/
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/eighth-amazon-activist
Shell pays 15.5 million settlement for its part in murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian environmental activist
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm#.VeB2afn4_bg
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000hXGlxHwQOCA/s/750/001228-01.j
Dorothy Stang, Dayton Ohio nun, murdered
http://cdn.ipsnoticias.net/wp-content/uploads/101428-20120822.jpg
https://www.globalwitness.org/reports/bloodtimber/?gclid=...
For more information:
http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/blood...
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