The report highlights that the control and use of land and territory is a central issue in countries where defenders are threatened. Since 2012, Global Witness has been gathering data on the killings of land and environmental defenders. In that time, a grim picture has come into focus – with evidence suggesting that as the… Continue reading A deadly decade for land and environmental activists – with a killing every two days
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HIGHEST NUMBER OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN 2019
Global Witness today revealed the highest number of land and environmental defenders murdered on record in a single year, with 212 people killed in 2019 for peacefully defending their homes and standing up to the destruction of nature. The NGO’s annual report also shed a light on the urgent role land and environmental defenders play in… Continue reading HIGHEST NUMBER OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN 2019
61% of the world’s new oil and gas set to come from US
The sheer scale of this new production dwarfs that of every other country in the world and would spell disaster for the world’s ambitions to curb climate change A new Global Witness analysis analysis calls for urgent action from the US to curb fossil fuel production, and calls on the Democratic National Committee to hold a… Continue reading 61% of the world’s new oil and gas set to come from US
PERU’S FOREST INSPECTION AGENCY REGAINS INDEPENDENCE
In a dramatic U-turn, the Peruvian government published a decree that restores the independence of OSINFOR, the agency in charge of inspecting and sanctioning illegal logging crimes in the Peruvian Amazon. This comes just a few months after its independence had been seriously undermined by placing it under ministerial control. For the last decade, OSINFOR… Continue reading PERU’S FOREST INSPECTION AGENCY REGAINS INDEPENDENCE
Are oil rights in Salonga National Park in DR Congo null and void?
Global Witness reveals that an opaque Guernsey-owned company’s oil rights threatening a protected national park in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be null and void, according to their legal analysis. In February 2018, Guernsey-owned oil company CoMiCo won approval for a contract originally signed in 2007, under a previous version of the oil law.… Continue reading Are oil rights in Salonga National Park in DR Congo null and void?
Chinese logging put Solomon Islands rainforests at risk
New evidence suggest hugely unsustainable rates of logging and high risk of illegal practices in the Solomon Islands are putting China’s trade diplomacy at risk Using satellite imagery and drone photography, the Paradise Lost report highlights how the Solomon Islands’ tropical forests – often portrayed in travel magazines as ‘untouched’ – are being logged at nearly twenty times the sustainable… Continue reading Chinese logging put Solomon Islands rainforests at risk
2017, the Deadliest Year for Land and Environmental Defenders as Agri-Business Most Linked to Killings
Global Witness reveals that at least 207 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2017– indigenous leaders, community activists and environmentalists murdered trying to protect their homes and communities from mining, agribusiness and other destructive industries. Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and environmental activists were killed in 2017 across 22 countries,… Continue reading 2017, the Deadliest Year for Land and Environmental Defenders as Agri-Business Most Linked to Killings
Liberian Loggers Secret Tax Breaks wipes US$ 13 Million off Country’s Finances
The Liberian government has secretly given the country’s loggers a US$13 million tax break, subsidising companies at the expense of the country and forest communities. International NGOs Global Witness and Tropenbos International say the move has undone 15 years of reform. Signed by Liberia’s President – and lauded economist – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the law… Continue reading Liberian Loggers Secret Tax Breaks wipes US$ 13 Million off Country’s Finances
A year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, protecting the planet is just as deadly
Robert Soutar Latin America remains the world’s deadliest region in which to defend the environment but those on the frontline of land and resource-related conflicts are continually targeted all over the world by profit from environmentally destructive industries. In recent months activists have been murdered in Mexico, Colombia, the Philippines and DR Congo, among others. Unlike… Continue reading A year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, protecting the planet is just as deadly
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