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Niger Delta Dorothy Stang

Dorothy Stang was an American- Hundreds of oil spills occur born Brazilian nun who dedicated annually in the rich mangrove swamps and lowland rainforests companies on behalf of the of the Niger River Delta, poor and marginalized. She was poisoning animal and human murdered in Anapu, Brazil in 2005. communities, destroying vegetation, and causing water and soil to become toxic.

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João Luiz Telles Penetra Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigerian poet and social movement leader Ken Saro Wiwa was condemned to Telles Penetra was killed just death for leading a non- days after the 2012 United violent struggle for justice in Nations for his outspoken the oil-ravaged Niger Delta. opposition to a Petrobras gas Saro-Wiwa was hanged in pipeline. November 1995. Walk a moment with the village heart Walk a moment with the village heart

Before we were humans Before we were humans How many peoples? How many peoples? We cannot know, because they are numberless. We cannot know, because they are numberless. Te species, the stories, the peoples lost – Te species, the stories, the peoples lost – they are numberless. they are numberless. So as you walk this labyrinth, So as you walk this labyrinth, hold them in your heart. hold them in your heart. Walk with them a moment. Walk with them a moment. Because this village, Because this village, this global village, this global village, – all of her – – all of her – has one heart. has one heart. Because it is our heart. Because it is our heart. Walk with this a moment. Walk with this a moment. Walk a moment with the village heart Walk a moment with the village heart

Chico Mendes was a Brazilian Filipino couple Manuela and rubber tapper who led a struggle Expedito Albarillo were killed against logging and cattle ranching in the village of San Teodoro in the Amazon. Mendes was in 2002 for opposing mining murdered by ranching interests in operation in Mindoro Oriental. 1988.

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Cross-river gorilla

Poaching and loss of habitat due to logging and palm oil development threaten to extinguish the small extinguished by pollution and loss remaining population of Cross-river of habitat in 2007. gorilla found in the Congo Basin.

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The heath hen, once found in the US from Maine to Virginia was Found in the Yukon, Alaska, and wiped out by hunting and natural Russia, the Spectacled eider is disasters and vanished by 1932. threatened by fossil fuel extraction and climate change.

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Bowhead Whale Graham’s Penstemon

Bowhead whale travel close to the Graham’s penstemon, found in edge of the Arctic icepack, and is the Uinta Basin of eastern Utah mortally threatened by oil and gas and Northwestern Colorado, lives development, collisions with ships, in oil shale soils, where oil shale global warming and whaling. mining and oil and gas development threaten it with extinction.

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Native to the Hawaiian Islands, skies over North America east of the the Kauai’i O’o was wiped out in Rocky Mountains until hunting and the late 1980s by the introduction clearing of forests for agriculture of black rats, pigs, mosquitos, and caused its decline and ultimate Europeans. disappearance in 1914.

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Kentucky Arrow Darter Whooping Crane

The Kentucky arrow darter, found The Whooping crane, famous in the upper Kentucky River Basin, for its resonant song as it is threatened by coal mining and migrates from the Arctic to fossil fuel extraction as streams are Mexico, has been endangered by hunting and egg collection and is now threatened by Rio+20 Summit, for his outspoken opposition to a Petrobras gas Pipeline.

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The Tagaeri — one of just two The majestic and ferocious Polar known indigenous groups that lives bear which roams the Arctic from in voluntary isolation in Yasuni Russia to Canada, was threatened National Park — is threatened by by hunters into the 1970s, and oil companies drilling ever closer to today is endangered by loss of sea their lands. ice due to climate change.

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Ayoreo People Korubo People

The Korubo live largely uncontacted in the Brazilian The Ayoreo live in the Amazon. A small group of 24 Paraguayan Chaco, the area with recently migrated unknowingly the fastest deforestation rate in to a colonized area; the Brazilian the world.Their territory is being government has peacefully bought up and bulldozed by contacted them for their private landowners, leaving the protection. Ayoreo nowhere to go.

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The world’s largest coral reef, the Great Barrier Reef is threatened by The Yora are an uncontacted climate change and expansion of indigenous peoples in the Peruvian shale oil operations in Queensland Amazon, vulnerable to diseases at the south end of the reef. brought by oil workers and loggers illegally entering their territory.

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Gran Chaco Forest Fort McMurray

The largest dry forest in South In the center of Alberta’s massive America, the Gran Chaco, has tar sands development, animal been degraded by extraction, and human communities in and livestock operations, infrastructure around the Athabascan town of development, and groundwater Fort McMurray suffer from toxic tapping for industrial-scale irrigation. ecosystem destruction.

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Spanning 19 million acres, the Chapala Basin, including from oil fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is threatened by oil this watershed, once one of companies wanting to open the area Mexico’s most diverse river basins to drilling. and a key source of water for the city of Guadalajara.

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Elkhorn Coral Sperm Whales

Sperm whales, a popular victim Disease, loss of habitat, and climate of whaling in the 18th and 19th change have cost the critically century and are now targeted for endangered Elkhorn coral 80 their oil and ambergris. Before we percent of its population in the last drilled for oil, we whaled for oil. 30 years.

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The Brown Pelican which adorns Found across northern North America, the Greater Sage-Grouse and Atlantic oceans and the Gulf has been extirpated from Nebraska, of Mexico was vastly endangered Arizona, and British Columbia, and by DDT and other pesticides in the is further threatened by fossil fuel development which destroys its much reduced territory. habitat.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

This freshwater mussel, found in the rivers of Eastern Tennessee and Toxic chemicals from tanneries Southwest Virginia, is threatened in Dhaka, Bangladesh cause skin by the poisoning of its riverine disease and respiratory problems in home by mining, gas, and oil. residents and severely pollute the Buriganga River, now a dead zone.

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Before we were humans Before we were humans How many peoples? How many peoples? We cannot know, because they are numberless. We cannot know, because they are numberless. Te species, the stories, the peoples lost – Te species, the stories, the peoples lost – they are numberless. they are numberless. So as you walk this labyrinth, So as you walk this labyrinth, hold them in your heart. hold them in your heart. Walk with them a moment. Walk with them a moment. Because this village, Because this village, this global village, this global village, – all of her – – all of her – has one heart. has one heart. Because it is our heart. Because it is our heart. Walk with this a moment. Walk with this a moment. Marlin Mine Marikana Platinum Indigenous Activist Mine Protesters

In South Africa, police killed 34 An indigenous protester of locals who were striking over pay Goldcorp’s Marlin gold mine in and living conditions at a British- Guatemala was burned alive by owned platinum mine, which company workers. pollutes local waterways within the Crocodile River catchment.

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Toxic Dumping Texaco in Abidjan (now Chevron) Pollution in Ecuador

Drilling for oil in Ecuador from 1967 A contractor illegally dumped until 1992, Texaco (now Chevron) toxic petroleum waste products devastated indigenous communities in multiple sites around Abidjan, with birth defects, miscarriages, Cote D’Ivoire, including in Banco and cancer and dumped over 18 National Park, killing 17 people and billion gallons of toxic wastewater injuring thousands. into rivers.

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About 15,000 industries, including petrochemical and chemical Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin, contaminating waterways and causing respiratory disease and cancer in local residents.