FILE PHOTO: Environmental activists gather to urge world leaders to take action against climate change in Bogota, Colombia September 8, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a record 79 killed, according to UK advocacy group Global Witness.
The number of murdered environmental activists was the highest Global Witness has ever recorded for a single country in any given year since it started monitoring such killings in 2012, it said in its annual report published on Monday.
