Peru Prepares to Host Climate Talks as Indigenous Forest Defenders Die

"The nonprofit group Global Witness makes some valuable points in a new report offering Peru a path to cut the violence on its poorly governed resource frontier in the Amazon. The report, 'Peru’s Deadly Environment,' is being released today at a Manhattan event organized with the Alexander Soros Foundation.

The foundation’s founder, Alexander Soros, was scheduled to give a posthumous award for environmental activism to Edwin Chota, a prominent anti-logging campaigner, and three colleagues who were murdered earlier this year.

Diana Rios Rengifo, a daughter of one of the murdered men, was scheduled to accept the award on behalf of her father and their Ashéninka community, which has been trying to gain title to its lands for a decade."

Andrew C. Revkin reports for the Dot Earth blog in the New York Times November 17, 2014.