Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action

Abstract Close to two thousand environmental human rights defenders have been killed in 57 countries since 2002, with about four losing their lives every week in 2019. Many of these defenders represent Indigenous Peoples and local communities protecting ecosystems from large‐scale environmentally de...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter Bille Larsen, Philippe Le Billon, Mary Menton, José Aylwin, Jörg Balsiger, David Boyd, Michel Forst, Fran Lambrick, Claudelice Santos, Hannah Storey, Susan Wilding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-05-01
Series:Conservation Letters
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12777