Sentences with phrase «environmental defenders in»

Global Witness is calling on the Honduran state to crack down on an online smear campaign against groups working to protect land and environmental defenders in Honduras

The report, fittingly dedicated to Berta Cáceres (2015, Honduras) covers the state of land and environmental defenders in 2015 and is not short of harrowing evidence to support this statement:

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One result of global warming is wetter winters in the monarchs» Mexican environs, which make it easier for them to freeze to death, according to the environmental group Defenders of Wildlife.

November 12, 2010 — The Center and Defenders of Wildlife — represented by the Western Environmental Law Center — intervened in a lawsuit seeking the trapping and shooting of endangered Mexican gray wolves, the third since reintroduction began in 1998.

Peter H. Raven, a lifelong prober and defender of biological diversity and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, just distributed a note placing this year's surreally unpredictable presidential race (watch in virtual «surreality» here) in the broader context of consequential environmental and social trends that perpetually seem to hide in plain sight.

When I taught a seminar at Bard College in 2007 on the role of communication in shaping environmental policy, I had the students split into defenders of two approaches taken by prominent climate scientists.

The goal of the Environmental Defenders Fund is to create a unique collaborative opportunity that allows a range of environmental and biodiversity funders to engage on the complex issue of «defenders under threat» in an efficient and under - the - Environmental Defenders Fund is to create a unique collaborative opportunity that allows a range of environmental and biodiversity funders to engage on the complex issue of «defenders under threat» in an efficient and under - the - radaDefenders Fund is to create a unique collaborative opportunity that allows a range of environmental and biodiversity funders to engage on the complex issue of «defenders under threat» in an efficient and under - the - environmental and biodiversity funders to engage on the complex issue of «defenders under threat» in an efficient and under - the - radadefenders under threat» in an efficient and under - the - radar manner.

Cáceres helped expose the acute vulnerability of indigenous activists in Honduras, the world's most dangerous country per capita to be an environmental or land defender.

Spurred by the recent murder of Guatemalan environmental and human rights defender Rigoberto Lima Choc, a coalition of twelve global human rights and environmental organizations yesterday alerted the world's biggest palm oil traders of the gross violations of human rights occurring in the palm oil sector in Mesoamerica.

Despite recent press coverage about the violence against international environmental defenders, another prominent figure has been murdered in cold blood.

In total, some 185 environmental defenders were murdered in 2015, according to their latest reporIn total, some 185 environmental defenders were murdered in 2015, according to their latest reporin 2015, according to their latest report.

It's «designed not only to protect environmental defenders, but also to make it easier for people to get information, participate in decision - making that will affect their lives, and hold powerful interests to account,» said Excell, in a statement published by World Resources Institute

As of early March, nine environmental defenders have been killed this year, including Purépecha activist Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, who was one of the leaders of an indigenous movement against illegal logging in Cheran, Mexico.

The Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) recently introduced a new grants program that will fund legal expenses in cases against corporations harming the environment and human rights.

Nearly 40 percent of the environmental defenders murdered in 2016 were indigenous, Global Witness reported.

Honduras is the deadliest country in the world to be a land or environmental defender, according to Global Witness research.

The lawsuits continue: In separate lawsuits the Center for Biological Diversity, and Defenders of Wildlife plus the Southern Environmental Law Center have taken on the Department of Interior of its handling of

Of the ten leading environmental organizations in the US — the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, The National Wildlife Federation, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense, The National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, The World Wildlife Fund — not one supports nuclear power, despite the threat of clenvironmental organizations in the US — the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, The National Wildlife Federation, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense, The National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, The World Wildlife Fund — not one supports nuclear power, despite the threat of clEnvironmental Defense, The National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, The World Wildlife Fund — not one supports nuclear power, despite the threat of climate change.