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Okay but Indigenous activists have been saying this for years...
"Sometimes I feel we Indians are alone in this fight to protect our nature – everyone’s nature.” - Brazilian indigenous land rights & environmental activist Maria Valdenice Nukini.
"Global Witness published their 2014 report, Deadly Watch:
147 eco-activists were killed in 2014 compared to 51 in 2002.
Between 2002-2013, at least 908 activists were killed.
Ten more disappeared in suspicious circumstances.
Only ten convictions were recorded."
In 2015, 185 environmental activists were killed. 40% of them Indigenous. "If it’s not the oil company, it’s loggers, or people looking for metals, or people who steal our plants," - Maria Valdenice Nukini.
"2016...high-profile indigenous activists including Berta Caceras, a prominent critic of a hydroelectric dam project in Honduras..shot to death in her own home along with her brother, and Lesbia Janeth Urquía, who was active in opposing the privatisation of rivers in La Paz."
A number of experts believe that reclaiming land for indigenous people is the best way to protect the Earth\u2019s forests: https://t.co/kNxDLhLpdG pic.twitter.com/ywRvXz9wOo
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 10, 2018
"Sometimes I feel we Indians are alone in this fight to protect our nature – everyone’s nature.” - Brazilian indigenous land rights & environmental activist Maria Valdenice Nukini.
"Global Witness published their 2014 report, Deadly Watch:
147 eco-activists were killed in 2014 compared to 51 in 2002.
Between 2002-2013, at least 908 activists were killed.
Ten more disappeared in suspicious circumstances.
Only ten convictions were recorded."
In 2015, 185 environmental activists were killed. 40% of them Indigenous. "If it’s not the oil company, it’s loggers, or people looking for metals, or people who steal our plants," - Maria Valdenice Nukini.
"2016...high-profile indigenous activists including Berta Caceras, a prominent critic of a hydroelectric dam project in Honduras..shot to death in her own home along with her brother, and Lesbia Janeth Urquía, who was active in opposing the privatisation of rivers in La Paz."