South America

Asunción, Paraguay--One week before the third meeting of the Roundtable on
Responsible Soy (RTRS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina [1], the Global Forest
Coalition, a worldwide coalition of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and
Indigenous Peoples Organizations [2], have published an open call to NGOs to
withdraw themselves from the RTRS process [3]. The Coalition states that by
supporting the roundtable, NGOs are legitimizing the expansion of large-scale
soy monocultures that lead to massive deforestation, pesticide contamination,

Amazon environmentalist gunned down in Peru
Rhett A. Butler,
mongabay.com
March 14, 2008

After reporting a truck loaded
with mahogany
illegally logged from the Amazon rainforest, Julio Gualberto García Agapito,
a Peruvian authority who worked to protect forests, was gunned down by Amancion
Jacinto Maque, an illegal timber operator, on February 26, 2008. He is survived
by his wife and children.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article18757...

June 3, 2007
Biofuel gangs kill for green profits
Tony Allen-Mills, New York

He survived decades of Colombia's murderous guerrilla uprisings. He lived through paramilitary purges and steered well clear of the cocaine overlords who swarmed across his rural region. It was something completely different that killed Innocence Dias. He died because the world is turning green.