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Hundreds of Brazil's Eco-Warriors at Risk of Assassination

Indians of the Makixi tribe protest during a juridical dispute against large-scale rice farmers in Brasilia, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. More than 1,100 activists, small farmers, judges, priests and other rural workers have been killed in disputes since Chico Mendes' murder, according to the Catholic Land Pastoral, a watchdog group known as CPT. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) RIO DE JANEIRO - Twenty years after the killing of Chico Mendes, one of the world's most prominent rainforest defenders, hundreds of human rights and environmental activists still face the threat of assassination in Brazil, a new study claims.

The report, compiled by Brazil's Catholic Land Commission (CPT) and due to be released in full early next year, reveals that at least 260 people, among them a Catholic bishop, live under the threat of murder because of their fight against a coalition of loggers, farmers and cattle ranchers.

Posted in Activism, conservation, deforestation, Brazil