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** World Environment Day: RSF calls for the protection of environmental journalism
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Journalists who expose ecological scandals and investigate the consequences on local communities are obstructed from doing their work, threatened, and even killed. In the past ten years, over 200 reporters have suffered violent attacks ([link removed]) for covering environmental issues. So to mark World Environment Day, this 5 June, RSF — together with UNESCO, the Forum on Information and Democracy, and other leading international organisations — is calling on governments worldwide ([link removed]) to take responsibility. Protecting journalism and reliable information is essential to overcoming one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: climate change.


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“The climate cannot wait. Trustworthy reporting cannot wait either,” alerts RSF Editorial Director Anne Bocandé
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** NEWS BRIEFS
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** Cambodia: the endless harassment of Uk Mao
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Arrests, indictments, lawsuits and assaults are a grim daily reality for Cambodian journalist Uk Mao, a victim ([link removed]) of severe legal harassment due to his reporting on deforestation. Cambodia is one of the most dangerous countries for environmental journalists.


** Threatened investigations: the dangers of Ghana’s gold mines
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“They wouldn't let us out until we deleted the images,” recounts one of the three Ghanaian journalists who were assaulted while filming a site illegally occupied by galamseyers ([link removed]) (illegal gold miners).


** In India, journalists confront the “sand mafia”
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Nearly half of the journalists killed in India ([link removed]) over the past ten years were investigating environmental issues — primarily the seizure of land and mines for industrial purposes. Several had focused on the “sand mafia,” an organised crime network that has built an illegal industry exploiting the country’s natural resources at a time when construction projects are booming.


** Journalists under surveillance and pressure in Europe
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Environmental journalists frequently face attempts to intimidate them: several have been surveilled and profiled by the agrochemical industry for exposing the dangers of pesticides. Others have been obstructed from reporting while covering public protests related to these issues. In France, journalists investigating the agribusiness sector in Brittany have been subjected to pressure and harassment ([link removed]) .
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** Portrait
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** Dom Phillips: the Amazon expert assassinated in Brazil
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Three years ago, on 5 June 2022, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous rights defender Bruno Pereira were murdered ([link removed]) in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. They were conducting interviews for a book titled “How to Save the Amazon”, which has now been completed in their memory thanks to the work of other journalists in the region. Dom Phillips’ case is emblematic of the wave of violence ([link removed]) targeting the region’s reporters. Eight journalists have been killed in Latin America — five of them in the Amazon — over the past ten years. RSF continues to call for those responsible for Dom Phillips’ death to be brought to justice, and for concrete measures to be taken to ensure the safety of journalists working in the
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We’re not free to say what we want, especially when it comes to denouncing something illegal,” explains Cláudia Ferraz, journalist for the independent indigenous outlet Wayuri Network, in the RSF report “Scorched Lands of Journalism in the Amazon ([link removed]) ”. How are journalists silenced by those who seize land and natural resources? How do they keep reporting with a target on their backs? What actions can be taken to act, protect, and support these environmental journalists? Find the answers in our report.

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** You can help: protect the environment by defending those who keep us informed
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Every day, courageous journalists investigate attacks on the environment, from illegal deforestation and industrial pollution to land grabbing and clandestine mining. Their work is essential — but also dangerous.

This World Environment Day, support those who take risks to keep us informed about damage to our climate so that we can act to protect it.

➔ Donate to help protect journalism and our planet ([link removed])

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