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The following is a list of environmental activist assassinated around the world:

19th century

Date Activist name Country Cause
July 8, 1905 Guy Bradley United States Birds protection

20th century

Date Activist name Country Cause
July 8, 1905 Vicente Cañas Brazil Protection of Enawene Nawe people land
July 21, 1980 Wilson Pinheiro Brazil Preservation of the Amazon rainforest
July 10, 1985 Fernando Pereira New Zeland Protest against nuclear testing
December 22, 1988 Chico Mendes Brazil Preservation of the Amazon rainforest
6 February 1995 Jeanette Kawas Honduras Protests again palm plantations and dams
10 November 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa Nigeria nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation caused by crude oil extraction

21st century

In 21st century more than 1000 environmental activists has being killed.

2003

Date Activist name Country Cause
September 17, 2003 Jane Tipson Saint Lucia Conservationist and animal rights activism.

2005

Date Activist name Country Cause
12 February 2005 Dorothy Stang Brazil Preservation of the Amazon rainforest


2011

Date Activist name Country Cause
May 24, 2011 José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva Brazil Preservation of the Amazon rainforest
16 August 2011 Shehla Masood India RTI and environmental activism

2012

Date Activist name Country Cause
26 April 2012 Chut Wutty Cambodia Critics of the military's alleged role in illegal logging
11 September 2012 Hang Serei Odom Cambodia Reports about illegal logging industry

2013

Date Activist name Country Cause
13 March 2013 Perween Rahman Pakistan Reports about illegal logging industry
May 31, 2013 Jairo Mora Sandoval Costa Rica Protection leatherback turtle nests

2014

116 environmental activists were assassinated on 2014.[1] More than two environmentalists were assassinated every week on 2014.[2]


2015

185 environmental activists were assassinated on 2015.[3]

Date Activist name Country Cause
25 August 2015 Raimundo Santos Rodrigues (and his wife) Brazil Environmental rights defender.[4][5][6]

2016

Date Activist name Country Cause
3 March 2016 Berta Cáceres Honduras Protests against the construction of Agua Zarca Dam.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://grist.org/news/map-116-environmental-activists-were-killed-in-just-one-year/
  2. ^ http://time.com/3827939/environmental-activists-killed-2014-global-witness/
  3. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/environmental-activist-murders-global-witness-report
  4. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/27/why-are-brazils-environmentalists-being-murdered/
  5. ^ https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/killings-of-environmental-activists-jumped-by-20-percent-last-year/
  6. ^ https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/node/917
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