{
  "id": 7715665,
  "title": "People protecting nature and land set up self-defence units amid threat of murder",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/people-protecting-nature-and-land-set-up-self-defence-units-amid",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T05:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/nature-land-defenders-self-defence-murder-organised-crime"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Defenders of forests and rivers killed at rate of one every three days in 2025, with 85% of deaths in Latin America Nature and land defenders were murdered at the rate of one every three days last year, prompting many communities to set up self-defence units, according to the latest annual death toll by the independent watchdog Global Witness. Organised crime groups or professional killers were…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}