My Family Members Died Defending the Forest — Here’s Why I Carry On Their Fight

My Family Members Died Defending the Forest — Here’s Why I Carry On Their Fight

Claudelice Santos is a human rights and environmental defender from Pará in Brazil. Her organisation Zé Cláudio e Maria Institute, named after her brother and sister-in-law, is a socio-environmental justice organisation that provides support and assistance for activists in danger.  Here Claudelice shares how her family has survived in the Amazon rainforest and how she now defends it and the people that rely on it for their livelihoods.  My name …