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  • Indigenous land defenders like the\u00a0Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Brazil\u2019s largest coalition of Indigenous groups, are risking their lives for land conservation.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • How can donors help support Indigenous land defenders?<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Read more about the risks for Indigenous protestors defending the environment.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","intro":null,"content":"In Brazil,\u00a0two Yanomami children\u00a0drowned after getting sucked into a dredging machine used by\u00a0illegal gold miners. A 14-year-old Patax\u00f3 child was shot in the head during a conflict over land in the northeastern Bahia state. A Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 person was killed by military police during a\u00a0clash\u00a0over a farm the Guarani had reclaimed from settlers. \u201cThere has been an increase in the amount of conflict \u2013 socio and environmental conflict \u2013 in our lands,\u201d said Dinamam Tux\u00e1, of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Brazil\u2019s largest coalition of Indigenous groups. \u201dIt\u2019s destroying communities, and it\u2019s destroying our forests.\u201dBetween 2011 and 2021, at least 342 land defenders were killed in Brazil \u2013 more than any other country \u2013 and roughly a third of those murdered were Indigenous or Afro-descendant. That\u2019s according to a\u00a0new report\u00a0by Global Witness, an international human rights group, that documents over 1,700 killings of land and environment defenders globally during the same time period. The report says that on average, a land defender is killed every other day, but suggests that those numbers are likely an undercount and paints a grim picture of violence directed at communities fighting resource extraction, land grabs, and climate change.\u201cAll over the world, Indigenous peoples, environmental activists, and other land and environmental defenders risk their lives for the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss,\u201d reads the report. \u201cThey play a crucial role as a first line of defense against ecological collapse, yet are under attack themselves facing violence, criminalisation and harassment perpetuated by repressive governments and companies prioritizing profit over human and environmental harm.\u201dAfter Brazil, the Philippines and Colombia recorded the most killings: 270 and 322, respectively. Together all three countries make up more than half of the attacks recorded in the global report.In the Philippines, Indigenous and local environmental activists have been fighting huge infrastructure projects like the\u00a0Kaliwa Dam\u00a0and the\u00a0Oceana Gold Mine, both of which Indigenous leaders say threaten their land and the environment. According to Global Witness, over 40% of the defenders killed in the Philippines were Indigenous peoples.Read the full article about Indigenous land defenders by Joseph Lee at Grist.Read the full article","html_content":"

    In Brazil,\u00a0two Yanomami children\u00a0drowned after getting sucked into a dredging machine used by\u00a0illegal gold miners. A 14-year-old Patax\u00f3 child was shot in the head during a conflict over land in the northeastern Bahia state. A Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 person was killed by military police during a\u00a0clash\u00a0over a farm the Guarani had reclaimed from settlers. \u201cThere has been an increase in the amount of conflict \u2013 socio and environmental conflict \u2013 in our lands,\u201d said Dinamam Tux\u00e1, of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Brazil\u2019s largest coalition of Indigenous groups. \u201dIt\u2019s destroying communities, and it\u2019s destroying our forests.\u201d<\/p>

    Between 2011 and 2021, at least 342 land defenders were killed in Brazil \u2013 more than any other country \u2013 and roughly a third of those murdered were Indigenous or Afro-descendant. That\u2019s according to a\u00a0new report\u00a0by Global Witness, an international human rights group, that documents over 1,700 killings of land and environment defenders globally during the same time period. The report says that on average, a land defender is killed every other day, but suggests that those numbers are likely an undercount and paints a grim picture of violence directed at communities fighting resource extraction, land grabs, and climate change.<\/p>

    \u201cAll over the world, Indigenous peoples, environmental activists, and other land and environmental defenders risk their lives for the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss,\u201d reads the report. \u201cThey play a crucial role as a first line of defense against ecological collapse, yet are under attack themselves facing violence, criminalisation and harassment perpetuated by repressive governments and companies prioritizing profit over human and environmental harm.\u201d<\/p>

    After Brazil, the Philippines and Colombia recorded the most killings: 270 and 322, respectively. Together all three countries make up more than half of the attacks recorded in the global report.<\/p>

    In the Philippines, Indigenous and local environmental activists have been fighting huge infrastructure projects like the\u00a0Kaliwa Dam\u00a0and the\u00a0Oceana Gold Mine, both of which Indigenous leaders say threaten their land and the environment. According to Global Witness, over 40% of the defenders killed in the Philippines were Indigenous peoples.<\/p>

    Read the full article about Indigenous land defenders by Joseph Lee at Grist.