Nature and land defenders(守护者，捍卫者) were murdered at the rate of(以……的速度) one every three days last year, prompting many communities to set up self-defence units, according to the latest annual death toll by the independent watchdog(监督机构) Global Witness(全球见证组织).
根据独立监督机构“全球见证”发布的最新年度死亡人数统计，去年自然与土地守护者平均每三天就有一人被谋杀，这促使许多社区组建了自卫队。
Organised crime groups or professional killers were implicated(被牵连，涉及) in more than a third of the 124 killings of defenders in 2025 as narco-trafficking(毒品走私) activities overlapped with intrusions(入侵，侵入) into indigenous(原住民的，土著的) territories and environmental crime, such as illegal logging and wildcat gold mining(非法采金).
2025年，在124起守护者被杀事件中，有超过三分之一涉及有组织犯罪集团或职业杀手，因为毒品走私活动与对原住民领地的入侵以及非法伐木、非法采金等环境犯罪相互交织。
This was particularly true in Latin America, which accounted for(占（比例）) 85% of last year’s deaths of people trying to protect forests, rivers and other ecosystems(生态系统).
拉丁美洲的情况尤其如此，去年试图保护森林、河流和其他生态系统的遇害者中，有85%集中在该地区。