A law enforcement officer was fatally wounded and two civilians killed when a mob accosted him and three others as they tried to apprehend suspected illegal loggers in a village in northeastern Madagascar.
It is impossible to capture all of 2020's losses between the global pandemic, the impacts of natural disasters often exacerbated by human activities, and the atrocities committed against environmental defenders.
An indigenous network says the government is attempting to stop it monitoring forest loss via patrolling and satellite imagery, just when its work is most needed.
