On a November morning, Julia Chuñil, 72, strode through her cabin door in Chile’s lush Los Ríos region in search of missing livestock, with her dog Cholito by her side.  They never returned.  As president of her Indigenous Mapuche community, Chuñil had led efforts to recover ancestral Mapuche lands and defend the evergreen Valdivian forest, … Continue reading An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared