In the division by countries, Brazil led the ranking of the activists killed for the fourth consecutive time, where 29 people were killed in 2014.
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25 years after Chico Mendes, killings in the Amazon are endemic
In Pará, 231 people were killed and 809 received death threats between 1996 and 2010, according to the NGO Pastoral Land Commission. In 2011, 78 died and 12 were threatened.