“They may kill one, two, three of us, but others will come to defend the forest, they will not exterminate us,” says Marisol García Apagüeño, an Indigenous Kichwa leader from the Lower Huallaga region of the Peruvian Amazon. García Apagüeño is the only woman leader of the Federation of Indigenous Kechua Chazuta Amazonian Peoples (FEPIKECHA). […]
It isn’t unusual for those who defend the environment to be threatened, but sometimes their commitment to nature puts their lives directly at risk. According to a recently published Global Witness report, Latin America accounted for more than half of the environmental defenders killed around the world in 2018. Titled “Enemies of the State?” the […]
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