In its annual review, the Global Witness NGO named 177 land and environmental defenders who had been killed in 2022 – from the Amazon to the Philippines and Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the environment watchdog's latest report released this week, Latin America again bore the brunt of murders worldwide, including 39 killings across the vast Amazon rainforest, which is a vital carbon sink facing destruction at a time the world is grappling to curb climate change.
