Thursday, March 16, 2017

How Protecting Native Forests Cost a Southeast Asian Activist His Life

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Logging in Malaysia. Photo credit: Stephen Codrigtonn
Malaysian activist Bill Kayong fought to save native forest lands from logging and oil palm development. Like a troubling number of environmental campaigners around the world, he paid for it with his life. Second in a series.














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