Close to two thousand environmental human rights defenders have been killed in 57 countries since 2002, with about four losing their lives every week in 2019. Many of these defenders represent Indigenous Peoples and local communities protecting ecosystems from large-scale environmentally destructive projects. As the positive contributions of Indigenous and local communities to biodiversity conservation become better recognized, so should the losses and risks that they face. Despite major efforts at documenting abuses and protecting defenders, many blind spots and gaps remain. Here, we call for the conservation community to put the protection of defenders at the heart of its strategy to slow down and reverse the current onslaught on the environment. The conservation community can respond in a number of ways including reaching out to its constituencies, working together with the human rights community, and mobilizing its networks, field offices, and presence in remote areas to denounce abuses and counter isolation. In doing so the conservation community can advance the collective agenda bringing together conservation and environment-related human rights through the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

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理解和应对环境人权捍卫者危机：保护行动的案例

自 2002 年以来，已有近 2000 名环境人权捍卫者在 57 个国家遇害，2019 年每周约有四人丧生。其中许多捍卫者代表保护生态系统免受大规模环境破坏性项目影响的土著人民和当地社区。随着土著和当地社区对生物多样性保护的积极贡献得到更好的认可，他们面临的损失和风险也应该得到认可。尽管在记录虐待和保护维权者方面做出了巨大努力，但仍然存在许多盲点和差距。在这里，我们呼吁保护社区将保护捍卫者置于其战略的核心，以减缓和扭转当前对环境的冲击。保护社区可以通过多种方式做出回应，包括接触其支持者，与人权社区合作，以及动员其网络、外地办事处和偏远地区的存在来谴责虐待和反对孤立。通过这样做，保护社区可以推进集体议程，通过 2020 年后全球生物多样性框架将保护和与环境相关的人权结合起来。