New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

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5. It is very sad

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Thanks for your posts on Latin America. They are always informative .


Is that a sloth the little girl is hugging? It is saddening that one cannot do much beyond not use products made by the worst offenders or at most donate to a charity etc.

I wish I could remember the names of the other activists I have read of who have been slaughtered. There was another anti-logging activist who was murdered that I read of a few years ago..maybe from one of your posts even. Or probably The Guardian..I wish I could remember his name. Dian Fossey is only the best known such activist.

Now I have heard of Dorothy Stang. There was a man I read of a few years ago. He was American too I think. Or maybe from Sweden or Denmark or Norway..or maybe that was what struck me about his name..

Would you know who I am talking about. I am not looking forward to searching for “murdered anti logging environmentalist”…

Yup and it is as bad as one would expect:
https://www.courthousenews.com/mexican-forest-guardian-may-have-been-murdered/

https://www.wbez.org/worldview/2017/01/24/second-environmentalist-prizewinner-murdered-in-a-year

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/environ

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/mexican-anti-logging-monarch-butterfly-activist-found-dead-sparking-fears-n1127721

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/suspected-illegal-loggers-kill-3-forest-rangers-patrol-central-mexico-rcna140578

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-logging-activist-killed-western-190952750.html

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-antimining-activist-killed-6a70adebc9821a27165d12a5d898810c

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/02/23/anti-logging-activist-killed-in-western-mexico/

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/02/23/anti-logging-activist-killed-in-western-mexico/

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7317&context=sourcemex

Isidro Baldenegro Lopez; Edwin Chota; Homero Gómez González; Alvaro Arvizu, Alfredo Cisnero; Eustacio Alcala; Julio Santoyo.

These are real life heroes (an overused cliche of a term but it does apply to these men and women) and they are largely unknown and unsung, though they probably wouldn’t care about that if people at least knew what they were fighting and what they died for.


Wow ..it is worse than I realized -if you specifically use the terms :”murdered anti-logging activist” the sheer carnage showing up is saddening. The article I mentioned was a one-off I think I browsed to via The Guardian or probably read about in one of your posts. They should all be remembered along with specifically what they fought for. One should make a full list as depressing as that would be.