environmental activist

environmental activist

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

More than 140 environmental defenders killed across the world in 2024

Latin America is the most dangerous region for environmental advocates, with many of the cases remaining unsolved, according to a new report. Indigenous people, farmers and activists are all among...

This demand was made at a civic rally held as part of the ongoing "Bangladesh Gach Rakkha Andolan" sit-in programme, which has been staged for 30 days to protect the capitals Panthakunaj Park and Hatirjheel. File Photo: Collected

Re-evaluation of environmentally destructive development projects demanded

Environmental activists gather to urge world leaders to take action against climate change in Bogota, Colombia September 8, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo

Colombia deadliest country for environmentalists in 2023: Global Witness

A Cambodian environment activist holds a placard that reads "Justice is dead", after the Cambodian court delivers verdict against activists from the Cambodian environmental group Mother Nature, on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the King, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Chantha Lach

Cambodian court jails activists for plotting against government, insulting king

A child watches as heavy machinery collects plastic bottles and other rubbish at a sewage canal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 28, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Samrang Pring/File Photo

Cambodia environmental group slams 'politically motivated' trial

On Sunday, the protestors, under the banner "Saat Masjid Sarak Gach Rakkha Andalan," were marching to the DSCC Nagar Bhaban in Gulistan to speak to Mayor Taposh. Photo: TBS

Cut down the disconnect, not trees

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Police block activists from laying siege to Nagar Bhaban protesting Sat Masjid Road tree felling

A Yaqui Indigenous wears a bandana over his mouth as he walks through dust past the cemetery where slain water-defense leader Tomás Rojo is buried in Potam, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Rojo was a descendent of Tetabiate, a Yaqui leader killed in a 1901 battle with the government, which deported the surviving Yaquis to work in slave-like conditions on henequen plantations in far-away Yucatan. Photo: Hindustan Times via AP

200 environmental activists killed globally in 2021: Report

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Record 227 environmental activists killed in 2020