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June 22, 2016

Report: 185 Environmentalists Killed in 2015, the Deadliest Year on Record
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Meanwhile, a new report finds last year was the deadliest on record for
environmentalists. The group Global Witness says 185 environmental
activists were killed last year worldwide, a 60 percent increase over
the previous year. Fifty of them were killed in Brazil alone, where the
Summer Olympics are set to take place in August.


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