Countries where land and environmental activists are killed the most (2019)

[Kailash Kumar]

DEFENDING TOMORROW

The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders

July 2020

About the report

For years, land and environmental defenders have been the first line of defence against the causes and impacts of climate breakdown. Time after time, they have challenged the damaging aspects of industries rampaging unhampered through forests, wetlands, oceans and biodiversity hotspots. Yet despite clearer evidence than ever of the crucial role they play and the dangers they increasingly face, far too many businesses, financiers and governments fail to protect them in their vital and peaceful work.

This report is based on research into the killings and enforced disappearances of land and environmental defenders between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. It also shows the broader range of non-lethal threats and criminalisation that they face.

Total number of killings per country

Top findings

Source and full report:
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/defending-tomorrow/

 

[waz]

South American and Central American countries heading the list. I swear the value of life means nothing to many there.
They've inherited riches beyond belief and are now tearing it to shreds. God I hope we see a reverse.
My respects to the brothers and sisters who lost their lives defending our beautiful planet.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

South American and Central American countries heading the list. I swear the value of life means nothing to many there.
They've inherited riches beyond belief and are now tearing it to shreds. God I hope we see a reverse.
My respects to the brothers and sisters who lost their lives defending our beautiful planet.

That's for sure. That's why we need a wall.

 

[waz]

That's for sure. That's why we need a wall.

Just keep the crazies out man. You don't want them there i.e. hordes of young men looking for 'safety'.

 

[Nan Yang]

That's for sure. That's why we need a wall.

Just keep the crazies out man. You don't want them there i.e. hordes of young men looking for 'safety'.

You do not promote mutual trust by building a wall with your neighbor.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Surprising to see only 6 in India. I guess many cases are closed as local feuds in India. We have a lot of environmentalists living in perpetual fear of politicians and mafias.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

You do not promote mutual trust by building a wall with your neighbor.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...all-costly-further-review-wan-azizah-11400798

‘Costly’ Malaysia-Thailand border wall requires further review, says DPM Wan Azizah

The agreement to erect the border wall was reached between the previous Barisan Nasional administration and the Thai government to deter cross-border crime and smuggling.

 

[Meengla]

South American and Central American countries heading the list. I swear the value of life means nothing to many there.
They've inherited riches beyond belief and are now tearing it to shreds. God I hope we see a reverse.
My respects to the brothers and sisters who lost their lives defending our beautiful planet.

The Central and South American countries--considering that they are blessed with natural resources, have no major wars going on, are on the fringe of the global strategic chessboard, have even a far diminished guerrilla warfare left---they, and not Africa--are the true 'Dark Continent'. Such a shame for a beautiful region with great, great potentials! On the other hand, Africa maybe poor, is in news for bad reasons, because of very bad leadership and civil wars, but the African people are far more beautiful and cultured than the Central and South Americans are!!


I have a friend from a Central American country who got a little too uppity after 9/11 and events after subsequent years, calling Pakistan and Pakistanis as 'terrorists' in drunken joking ways. So once I retorted to him that your own effing country is the designated 'THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD'. He blamed that on the American govt releasing prisoners to his country. I don't buy that.

A few years ago I went to a South American country. I saw nothing but a culture of money worshipping, of taking advantage of tourists in scams, of an openness to allow anything goes for money--ANYTHING!, and of a lack of security that was present everywhere outside of the heavily touristy places...

What a failure of such potentials!!

 

[Nan Yang]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...all-costly-further-review-wan-azizah-11400798

‘Costly’ Malaysia-Thailand border wall requires further review, says DPM Wan Azizah

The agreement to erect the border wall was reached between the previous Barisan Nasional administration and the Thai government to deter cross-border crime and smuggling.

Oh Malaysia is hardly a country to be bench marked.