Women also lead at Environment America, Defenders of Wildlife and Rainforest Action Network.
Its climate change campaign brings together the novel combination of faith groups and military figures to call on the nation's leaders to tackle global warming in order to be both good stewards of the environment and defenders of national security.
And they must also weigh the state's extensive case law upholding the fairness of the three-strikes law, creating a challenging and ambiguous legal environment for public defenders to navigate.
"I would be absolutely happy for him and his family, but it would reveal that the environment for rights defenders is worsening," said Zeng. "It would feel desperate if even the most important activist – someone who has the wisdom and ability to make changes in China – had to go into exile to protect his safety".
Players here laud Kiffin's game-day defensive calls, his emphasis on being smart, fast and physical and his helping to create an environment where Bucs defenders do not waste time wondering who will make a play but compete to see who will make it first.
"Journalists, human rights defenders, environment campaigners and civil society activists working on any number of sensitive issues can quickly find themselves targeted by well-resourced and highly capable adversaries," said Ford Lyons in a statement.
"[The road dispute] has an effect on the credibility of the current government and of course undermines the image of the president who is no longer seen as a defender of the environment or as a defender of indigenous rights," Pareja said.
It presents to the world the unEDiFying spectacle of the greedy pursuing the selfless, of the rich pursuing the poor, of world-wreckers pursuing the defenders of the environment.
It is community-based defenders of the environment who know only too well what undermines or strengthens their livelihoods, that are like environmental bomb disposal experts, risking their lives in the field, on the frontline.
As his term runs out, those conservation steps and other achievements are being cited by environmental groups as worthy enough to rank Mr. Clinton among presidents as "one of the great defenders of the environment," as Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, put it.
Implicit in that argument is the seemingly hard-hearted notion of "fungibility": that natural resources, whether petroleum or giant pandas, are substitutable.Rio's fatal flawChampions of development and defenders of the environment have been locked in battle ever since a UN summit in Stockholm launched the sustainable-development debate three decades ago.
