by Alessandra Bergamin | Sep 29, 2026 | Animals, Ecocide, environmental defenders, Guatemala, ICC, Indigenous Peoples, Indonesia, Israel, Lebanon, News, Palestine, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, War, white phosphorous, Wildlife
In late April 2025, after 41-year-old farmer Oussama Farhat was discharged from the hospital, two pieces of shrapnel still lodged in his body, he hurried to check on an injured red fox. In his southern Lebanon village of Meiss el-Jabal, Farhat, a volunteer with the environmental organization Green Southerners, had helped rescue the cub from beneath the rubble of ongoing Israeli air strikes — the…
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by Katie Surma | Sep 16, 2026 | brazil, Colombia, Criminalization, Daniel Noboa, Daniel Ortega, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, environmental defenders, extractive economy, extractive industries, Guatemala, Honduras, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Resistance, Indonesia, Land Defenders, mexico, Mining, News, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Repression, Trump Administration, USAID, USAID cuts
Every three days someone is killed for defending nature. In 2025, watchdog group Global Witness documented 124 such deaths worldwide, a toll researchers say is likely only a fraction of the total number because repression and armed conflict make many deaths impossible to verify. The victims included Indigenous people, small-scale farmers and community organizers peacefully protecting…
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