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Brazil: Forest Defender Shot Dead

Written bySara Moreira

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Posted 24 May 2011 22:30 GMT

As the Brazilian Congress debates a new Forest Code, and as the Environment Ministry launches new raids on illegal deforestation in Brazil, forest defender José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva was shot dead [pt]. He had announced his life was under threat in the TEDxAmazonia conference, last November.

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