Murdered

Every four days an Indigenous leader is killed for defending their territories.

Every four days an Indigenous Earth defender is killed for protecting their land. Governments can help fix this by giving Indigenous Peoples legal title to their territories so they can protect our planet's vital ecosystems without being murdered. Let's be one million voices standing with them before world leaders gather this month to discuss the future of our forests! Add your name now: SIGN THE PETITION Dear friends, Earth's guardians are being murdered for keeping our forests alive. More than 2,000 have been killed in recent years for standing up to ranchers, loggers and miners invading their land for profit. This is a tragedy for all of us. Indigenous Peoples guard our forests - but they can't keep doing it if their lives and lands are under attack. Many of them don't even legally own the lands that they have died for! World leaders can help stop these senseless attacks by ensuring Indigenous Peoples have legal title to their lands so they can protect our planet's vital ecosystems without being murdered. Add your name to stand with the Earth defenders and we'll deliver our voices straight to world leaders at a key summit this month in Colombia: Let's fight for life on Earth Science shows that Indigenous Peoples territories are the best conserved of all. But they lack legal title to many of the lands they safeguard.  This huge gap is driving biodiversity loss in the Amazon and around the world - and it leaves Indigenous Peoples terribly unprotected. Governments can help fix this by granting Indigenous Peoples legal title to their territories - discouraging poachers, drillers, and miners and giving Indigenous People a path to sustain their knowledge and governance systems that doesn't kill them. We have a chance to make this happen at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Colombia, by pushing leaders to legally recognize and account for Indigenous territories in their efforts to save our planet's remaining biodiversity. Indigenous groups are fighting hard to make this happen - add your name to stand with them now! Let's fight for life on Earth Avaaz has long stood with Indigenous Peoples risking their lives to protect the forests that sustain us all - from Peru to Tanzania. We will not stay silent as long as they continue to be murdered for defending life on Planet Earth. Let's make this summit in Colombia a turning point for Earth defenders everywhere! With hope and determination, Liliana, Laura, Nell, Miguel, Luciana, Dudu, Raul, Edda and the rest of the Avaaz team More information: Two Brazilian Indigenous Youths Are Murdered, Shot in the Back Amid Conflicts Over Land (Amazon Watch) More than 2,100 land and environmental defenders killed globally between 2012 and 2023 (Global Witness) Almost 200 people killed last year trying to defend the environment, report finds (The Guardian) Ahead of COP16, groups warn of rights abuses linked to '30×30' goal (Mongabay)

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