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Land defender, the Glossary

A land defender, land protector, or environmental defender is an activist who works to protect ecosystems and the human right to a safe, healthy environment.^[1]

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Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Aguán River

The Aguán River; also commonly known by its Spanish name, Rio Aguán) is a river in Honduras. It rises in the Yoro region to the west of San Lorenzo and briefly runs south before turning east-northeast, passing San Lorenzo, Olanchito and Tocoa before entering the Caribbean Sea east of Puerto Castilla.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Ancestral domain

Ancestral domain or ancestral lands are the lands, territories and resources of indigenous peoples, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Berta Cáceres

Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 March 1971 – 3 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). Land defender and Berta Cáceres are indigenous rights activists.

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Bill McKibben

William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960)"Bill Ernest McKibben." Environmental Encyclopedia.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Ceremony

A ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

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Chiapas

Chiapas (Tzotzil and Tzeltal: Chyapas), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chico Mendes

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (15 December 1944 – 22 December 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist. Land defender and Chico Mendes are indigenous rights activists.

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Climate justice

Climate justice is a type of environmental justice that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Cultural heritage

Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.

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Dakota Access Pipeline

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) or Bakken pipeline is a underground pipeline in the United States that has the ability to transport up to 750,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil per day.

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Dakota Access Pipeline protests

The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, also known by the hashtag #NoDAPL, were a series of grassroots Native American protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States that began in April 2016.

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Dallas Goldtooth

Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota/Diné, born May 3, 1983) is a Native American (Sioux) environmental activist and performing artist.

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David Richard Boyd

David Richard Boyd is a Canadian environmental lawyer, activist, and diplomat.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Environmental defender

Environmental defenders or environmental human rights defenders are individuals or collectives who protect the environment from harms resulting from resource extraction, hazardous waste disposal, infrastructure projects, land appropriation, or other dangers. Land defender and environmental defender are indigenous activists and land rights movements.

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Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a UK-founded global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.

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Fracking

Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid.

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Global Witness

Global Witness is an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Hernán Bedoya

Hernán Bedoya was a Colombian land rights activist who fought corporate farmland encroachment.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.

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Human right to water and sanitation

The human right to water and sanitation (HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life.

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Human rights defender

A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigenous Environmental Network

The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is a coalition of indigenous, grassroots environmental justice activists, primarily based in the United States.

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Indigenous land rights

Indigenous land rights are the rights of Indigenous peoples to land and natural resources therein, either individually or collectively, mostly in colonised countries. Land defender and Indigenous land rights are land rights movements.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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Inuit culture

The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).

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Inuit music

Traditional Inuit music (sometimes Eskimo music, Inuit-Yupik music, Yupik music or Iñupiat music), the music of the Inuit, Yupik, and Iñupiat, has been based on drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq (Inuit throat singing) has become of interest in Canada and abroad.

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Killing of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán

Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, was a Venezuelan environmental activist and eco-anarchist who was shot and killed by Georgia State Patrol Troopers, after a Georgia State Patrol Trooper was wounded during a raid of the Stop Cop City encampment on January 18, 2023.

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Labrador

Labrador is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Land degradation

Land degradation is a process in which the value of the or biophysical or biochemical environment is affected by a combination of natural or human-induced processes acting upon the land.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of environmental killings

Environmental killings are murders, assassinations, or other unlawful killings which are linked to environmental issues such as illegal logging, mining, land grabbing, pollution etc.

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Lumad

The Lumad are a group of Austronesian indigenous peoples in the southern Philippines.

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National Guard (United States)

The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the U.S. military's reserve components of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force when activated for federal missions.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Northern Mindanao

Northern Mindanao (Amihanang Mindanao; Maranao: Pangotaraan Mindanao; Hilagang Mindanao) is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region X. It comprises five provinces: Bukidnon, Camiguin, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, and Lanao del Norte, and two cities classified as highly urbanized, all occupying the north-central part of Mindanao island, and the island-province of Camiguin.

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Oka Crisis

The Oka Crisis (Crise d'Oka), also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance,, or Mohawk Crisis, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course on land known as "The Pines" which included an indigenous burial ground. Land defender and Oka Crisis are land rights movements.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Paulo Paulino Guajajara

Paulo Paulino Guajajara (1 November 2019), also known as "Lobo" (Portuguese: "Wolf"), was a Brazilian Indigenous (Guajajara) environmental activist and land defender.

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Petroleum industry

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Profit (economics)

In economics, profit is the difference between revenue that an economic entity has received from its outputs and total costs of its inputs, also known as surplus value.

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Protest

A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval, or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one.

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Rarámuri

The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a group of Indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico.

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Resource depletion

Resource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.

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Rhetorical question

A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information.

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Right to a healthy environment

The right to a healthy environment or the right to a sustainable and healthy environment is a human right advocated by human rights organizations and environmental organizations to protect the ecological systems that provide human health.

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Right to property

The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada; GRC) is the national police service of Canada.

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South River Forest

The South River Forest or Weelaunee Forest is an area in southeast metro Atlanta DeKalb County, Georgia, United States named after the nearby South River.

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Standing Rock Indian Reservation

The Standing Rock Reservation (Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ) lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate," as well as the Hunkpatina Dakota (Lower Yanktonai).

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Stop Cop City

Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City & Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, whose goal is to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta.

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Traditional Alaska Native medicine

Traditional Alaska Native medicine is a cultural style of healing that has been passed down from one generation of Alaska Native peoples to the next and is based on success over time and oral tradition.

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Unistʼotʼen Camp

The Unistʼotʼen Camp is a protest camp and indigenous healing centre in northern British Columbia, Canada. Land defender and Unistʼotʼen Camp are indigenous rights activists.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_defender

Also known as Land activist.

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Land defender, the Glossary

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See also

Indigenous activists

Land rights movements

References