Land Defenders in the Crosshairs: When Conservation Becomes a Death Sentence The recent report by Global Witness detailing 124 land defender murders last year, at an average rate of one every three days, is a stark reminder that conservation efforts have become deadly.
Since 2012, 2,375 deaths and disappearances have occurred, with Latin America accounting for 85% of those fatalities.
Colombia, Brazil, and Honduras lead the list of countries where protecting nature has become a death sentence. The statistics are numbing, but what's equally disturbing is government complicity in this carnage.