Ramona Wadi
For the second consecutive year, Latin America has been established to be the most dangerous region for environmental activists. According to a recent annual report by Global Witness titled "Last Life on Defence", 227 environmental activists and indigenous leaders were killed in 2020, with three out of every four killings occurring in Latin America.
Colombia once again led the statistics in the region with 65 environmental activists murdered, among them indigenous and afro-descent individuals, as well as small scale farmers.