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When Defending The Land Puts Your Own Life At Risk

When Defending The Land Puts Your Own Life At Risk

Short Wave · NPR

February 10, 202114m 36s

Show Notes

Global Witness documented that 212 environmental and land activists were murdered in 2019. Over half of those documented murders took place in Colombia and the Philippines, countries where intensive mining and agribusiness has transformed the environment. NPR Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong speaks with three activists about the intersection between natural resource extraction and violence, and what keeps them going in their work.

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