PARIS: No less than 200 natural campaigners and defenders — 40 percent from indigenous tribes — were killed the world over in 2016, the deadliest year on record, the guard dog association Worldwide Witness said on Thursday. The troubling count, twofold the number killed two years before, is the biggest since the NGO started following such savagery in 2002, it detailed. The genuine number is presumably higher as a few killings go undocumented. Lethal assaults against activists have turned out to be more far reaching, happening in 24 nations in 2016, contrasted with 16 the prior year. Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippines represented the greater part of the affirmed passings, trailed by India, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Popularity based Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bangladesh. Sixty for every penny of those killed were from Latin America. "The fight to ensure the planet is quickly escalating, and the cost can be numbered in human lives," said Worldwide Witness campaigner...