Between 2002 and 2017, 1,558 people across 50 countries were killed for defending their environments and lands; this is more than double the number of United Kingdom and Australian armed service people killed on active duty in war zones over the same period. In this episode I explore some of the research which aims to understand where this is happening and how it can be stopped.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Extinction’ by Jackie Kay here.
Find out more about Global Witness here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Episode 254: Shadows in the Sea
Episode 253: Seismic Snow
Episode 252: The Weakening Pulse of Life
Episode 251: Women of the Wildfires
Episode 250: Plastic Flesh
Episode 249: Pink and Swollen Shores
Episode 248: Fettering their Nests
Episode 247: Shadows in the Glass
Episode 246: Secrets Beneath the Ice
Episode 245: Blue Reflections of Time
Episode 244: Silence in the Depths
Episode 243: Deforesting Disease
Episode 242: When the Sky Gathers Tears
Episode 241: Nuclear Transmutations
Episode 240: Consumed Stars
Episode 239: The Fevered Climate
Episode 238: Over Martian Shores
Episode 237: Retreating Futures
Episode 236: Cosmic Reflections
Episode 235: In Venusian Skies
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