{"article":{"id":272893,"heading":"908 Environmentalists Have Been Murdered in Brazil, Many Elsewhere As Well","author":"Nonviolent Trees","created":"2015-08-28 16:52:51","modified":"2015-08-28 16:52:51","last_modified":"Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:52:51","article":"

The group Global Witness lists 32 countries in which environmentalists have been killed. Mexico has seen at least 40 activists murdered.

908 Brazilian Environmentalists Murdered

In 32 countries environmentalists have been murdered

https:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/reports\/bloodtimber\/?gclid=CIb_tf2LzMcCFYU<\/a>

Mexico has had 40 environmentalists murdered in a few years' time

http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/news\/redefine\/rewild\/commentary\/hundreds-of-environm<\/a>

Santos Rodrigues murdered August 2015

http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/reuters\/article-3212301\/Police-investig<\/a>

Why They Killed Chico Mendes

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/08\/19\/books\/why-they-killed-chico-mendes.htm<\/a>

Brazil's JBS is now the world's biggest cow butcher

http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_world_\/2014\/04\/15\/report_finds_908_enviro<\/a>

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/08\/27\/why-are-bra\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-agriculture\/eighth-amazon-activist<\/a>

Shell pays 15.5 million settlement for its part in murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian environmental activist

http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2009\/jun\/08\/nigeria-usa<\/a>

http:\/\/www.rain-tree.com\/facts.htm#.VeB2afn4_bg<\/a>

http:\/\/cdn.c.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000hXGlxHwQOCA\/s\/750\/001228-01.j<\/a>

Dorothy Stang, Dayton Ohio nun, murdered

http:\/\/cdn.ipsnoticias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/101428-20120822.jpg<\/a>

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"https:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/reports\/bloodtimber\/?gclid=CIb_tf2LzMcCFYU","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":" \r\nChico Mendes, Santos Rodrigues, Ohio nun Dorothy Stang are some of the nearly 1000 environmentalists murdered in Brazil by cattle ranchers, loggers, and other financial interests.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2015\/08\/368.jpg","filesize":"59.2 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2015\/08\/272893.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2015\/08\/368.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2015\/08\/368.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2015\/08\/368.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}