Evie Calder

🌳 Media & comms

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared around the world last year defending their land, communities or the environment.

Read the full report - https://t.co/xGHhYpMVVZ

#StandWithDefenders

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

Join @GreenpeaceUK + @Page75 on 15 May for an exclusive pre-release screening of @PBIUK’s The Line We Crossed🎥 — a documentary exposing the repression of climate protest and frontline resistance to climate breakdown https://t.co/heclxXz3Bz
🎟️ Free tickets https://t.co/lCgQiI1yM4

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

Indigenous campaigners in the Philippines have spoken of their fear of becoming “collateral damage” in the global hunt for transition minerals.

The #greentransition cannot come at the cost of human rights or the planet.

More from our @Hanna_Hindstrom ⬇️
https://t.co/dxQQGhDgYH

[BusinessGreen @BusinessGreen]

'A national embarrassment': UK imports goods linked to the destruction of a Liverpool-sized forest each year https://t.co/pGOwl2ciZx

[James Murray @James_BG]

Report warns the UK is continuing to import lots of commodities linked to illegal forest clearance. https://t.co/JmLmEGS54G

[The Grocer @TheGrocer]

Lack of regulation of imported goods to the UK has helped destroy an area of global forest equivalent to the size of Liverpool 🌲🌍📦 https://t.co/80tJlPCx6X

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

🚨BREAKING: The #Walney16 won a modest victory today, but their harsh sentences for peaceful climate protest mirror a global trend of silencing those who defend our planet.

The UK govt must urgently review its draconian anti-protest laws.

https://t.co/qOYZL8LFMC

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

🌍The Congo Basin is a lifeline for our planet, absorbing more CO₂ than the Amazon rainforest.

It's also home to a staggering array of biodiversity, like chimpanzees, bonobos, elephants and gorillas.

🔥BUT it's under extreme threat. Here's why ⬇️

https://t.co/jbZO6cNpc2

[El Surtidor @elsurti]

En los últimos tres años, se deforestaron unas 75 mil hectáreas en el Chaco para proveer, en parte, colágeno a uno de los mayores fabricantes mundiales.

@Global_Witness identificó los 10 bancos más grandes del mundo que dieron financiación a los frigoríficos. 🧵

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

🚨BREAKING: Our latest investigation shows how @HSBC is helping drive deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, one of Earth’s key #biodiversity hotspots

🌍 Our work in the @Telegraph this morning, featuring comment from our Forests campaign lead @AlexHREID
https://t.co/UAu4gqEwGQ

[Hanna Hindström @Hanna_Hindstrom]

6) Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity risk becoming collateral damage in the global scramble for Zet Zero. It's time to realise that we cannot mine our way out of the climate emergency without deadly consequences.

[Hanna Hindström @Hanna_Hindstrom]

1) Our latest investigation reveals the dirty bootprint of the #Philippines boom in mining for critical minerals.

New data shows that Indigenous communities and biodiversity hotspots are bearing the brunt of this extraction https://t.co/yDLaWbwr4n

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

🌍 BREAKING: Global demand for #CriticalMinerals is devastating #Indigenous groups and ecosystems in the Philippines 🇵🇭, our latest investigation reveals.

The #GreenTransition cannot come at the expense of communities and climate-critical biodiversity.
https://t.co/u1SymkC2OK

[Reuters @Reuters]

Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a record 79 killed, according to UK advocacy group Global Witness https://t.co/e3YF6BoFKz

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Nearly 200 land and environment defenders killed in 2023, says Global Witness report.

The annual report found Latin America remains the most dangerous part of the world for environmental and land defenders, accounting for 85% of the 196 murders last year

https://t.co/7MwkaMSGgH

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

Almost 200 people killed in 2023 trying to defend the environment, report finds

- Latin America was the most deadly region in which to defend ecosystems from mining and deforestation, with Indigenous people among half the dead

@Global_Witness

https://t.co/LfNU8Plj4O

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Almost 200 ecological activists murdered last year while protecting environment, says new report
https://t.co/FG2Ujlf8bC

[Reuters @Reuters]

Colombia deadliest country for environmentalists in 2023, rights group says https://t.co/TiNnTxWBXj

[Katie Surma @Katie_Surma]

‘Appalling Figures’: At least three environmental defenders were killed, on average, per week in 2023, according to a new report from Global Witness

https://t.co/h6jkLfR6UA

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

BREAKING 🔴

Over 2,000 land and #EnvironmentalDefenders have been murdered since 2012.

196 of these murders occurred in 2023 alone.

We demand immediate action to #DefendTheDefenders

https://t.co/lxH05ZqEye