A report released by a watchdog Global Witness says land activist Esther Mwikali was among 212 eco-defenders globally who were murdered in cold blood in 2019.
In neighbouring Uganda, a park ranger was shot dead by unknown assailants suspected to be poachers with connections in the government.
The two countries with the most known killings of eco-activists last year — Colombia with 64 and the Philippines with 43 — collectively accounted for over half of all murders documented by the group.
The brutal killing of Esther Mwikali, a 57-year-old land rights activist whose mutilated body was found dumped near her home at Mithini village in Murang’a County in August last year, has seen Kenya remain in a list of countries considered hostile to land and environment defenders in the world.
A report released by a watchdog Global Witness says Mwikali was among 212 eco-defenders globally who were murdered in cold blood in 2019.
