Newsvine - for-the-environment

Newsvine - for-the-environmenthttp://www.newsvine.com/for-the-environmentNewsvine - for-the-environmenten-usCopyright 2013Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:23:00 +0000Mon, 20 May 2013 19:17:04 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssKillings of environmentalists appear to be on rise http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/20/12312269-killings-of-environmentalists-appear-to-be-on-risehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/20/12312269-killings-of-environmentalists-appear-to-be-on-riseenvironmentsciencedyingworld-newsasthe-environmentchut-wuttyfor-the-environmentWed, 20 Jun 2012 07:57:24 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post

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In this photo taken, Feb. 6, 2012, and released by The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), Chut Wutty, left, stands next to a log in a jungle in Kampong Thom province in northern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The eulogies called Wutty one of the few remaining activists in Cambodia brave enough to fight massive illegal deforestation by the powerful. The environmental watchdog was shot by a military policeman in April as he probed logging operations in one of the country's last great forests. (AP Photo/The Cambodian Center for Human Rights)In this photo taken, Feb. 6, 2012, and released by The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), Chut Wutty stands on wooden planks of log in a jungle in Kampong Thom province in northern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The eulogies called Wutty one of the few remaining activists in Cambodia brave enough to fight massive illegal deforestation by the powerful. The environmental watchdog was shot by a military policeman in April as he probed logging operations in one of the country's last great forests. (AP Photo/The Cambodian Center for Human Rights)FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2011 file image released by the Federal Public Ministry of Mato Grosso do Sul State, Nisio Gomes, a chief of the Kaiowa-Guarani Indian tribe in western Brazil, is seen two days before he was executed, in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. Gomes was the chief of the Brazilian tribe struggling to protect its land from ranchers. Masked men gunned him down in November; his body, quickly dragged into a pickup, has not been seen since. (AP Photo/Federal Public Ministry of Mato Grosso do Sul State, File)FILE - In this undated photo released by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, Philippines, Italian Catholic priest Rev. Fausto Tentorio is shown in Arakan township, North Cotabato, Philippines. The dead last year included Tentorio, an Italian Catholic priest who fought against mining companies to protect the ancestral lands of the Manobo tribe in the southern Philippines. Affectionately known as "Father Pops," he was buried in a coffin made from a favorite mahogany tree he had planted. (AP Photo/Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, Philippines, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYFILE - In this Oct. 25, 2011 file photo, a crowd gather in Kidapawan township as slain Italian priest Rev. Fausto Tentorio is laid in a coffin to rest in North Cotabato province in southern Philippines. The dead last year included Tentorio, an Italian Catholic priest who fought against mining companies to protect the ancestral lands of the Manobo tribe in the southern Philippines. Affectionately known as "Father Pops," he was buried in the coffin made from a favorite mahogany tree he had planted. (AP Photo/File)In this photo taken May 30, 2008 and released by The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), Chut Wutty, foreground, sits with logging workers in a jungle of Stung Treng province in northeastern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The environmental watchdog was shot by a military policeman in April as he probed logging operations in one of the country's last great forests. (AP Photo/The Cambodian Center for Human Rights)