Land defenders, killings, and steps towards justice

In the UK and I expect in plenty of other places, environmentalism is often seen is the province of white middle class people. That may be true of the green sector and its organisations, but it’s not true of the broader global movement. The wider story of people standing up for nature and land is much more diverse, and often more urgent. For many living at the margins, protecting rivers and forests is a matter of their own survival, and it often puts them in harm’s way.

The environmental jus...