‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week in 2023

Eduardo Mendúa, a member of the Indigenous A’i Cofán peoples, resisted the expansion of oil operations in Ecuador’s Cofán territory. On February 26, 2023, Mendúa, 40, was in his garden when two hooded men shot him 12 times at point-blank range.  Mendúa is one of 196 environmental defenders murdered last year, according to a report released Monday [...]