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class="gmail-content__headline gmail-content__headline--no-margin-bottom">What
happens to environment journalists is chilling: they get killed for their
work</H1></DIV>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/18/environment-journalists-killed">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/18/environment-journalists-killed</A>
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Journalists</A> reports that an unprecedented 13 journalists pursuing
environmental stories have been killed in the process of doing their work over
the past 10 years.</P>
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close to unrestrained power can also get you beaten up, harassed, and
threatened. That’s what <A
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href="https://www.dw.com/en/moscow-to-restart-work-on-highway-through-khimki-forest/a-6337979">journalists
in Russia</A> discovered when they described the impact of a road built
through a forest connecting Moscow to St Petersburg. Journalists in Brazil
working to expose the rapid expansion of soybean farms into the Amazon had a
similar experience; as did journalists in Tanzania, as the Guardian’s
new <A
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/green-blood">Green
Blood</A> series details,when they tried to expose the devastation wrought
by mines.</P>
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engaged directly in environmental activism – often journalists’ sources – also
pay a high price.<EM> </EM><A
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href="https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/their-faces-defenders-frontline/#chapter-1/section-1">Global
Witness reports</A> that 207 environmental activists were killed in 2017,
most of whom were opposed to agribusiness and mining projects. Their fate sends
a chilling message to journalists inclined to dig deeper.</P></DIV>
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act in peace, with ferocious love of these lands in our hearts. We act on behalf
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=victor.postnikov@gmail.com href="mailto:victor.postnikov@gmail.com">Victor
Postnikov</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 18, 2019 7:29 PM</DIV>
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