BRASILIA (AFP) - a leader of the community who had denounced illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon was shot and killed Friday, a church Ministry said, making him the third ecologist killed this week.
Adelino Ramos, also known as Dinho, was shot dead by a motorist that he sold vegetables in the Northwest of the State of Rondonia, Amazon, said the Group of the Catholic Church land Pastoral Commission.
The group said that received death threats during his campaign against logging in the Amazon and the remote areas of border between the States of Acre, Amazon and Rondonia.
On Tuesday, a team of husband and wife of environmentalists, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, were killed by a State in the Amazon North of the Para Brazil, one of the most restive regions in the country due to land disputes.
The Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a federal investigation to find those responsible for the double murder.
According to the environmental group, they worked for, the pair had also received death threats on their work to preserve the rain forest in the State and prevent illegal deforestation for charcoal production and cleared pasture for cattle.
Brazil, the country's fifth largest by area, a 5.3 million square kilometres of jungle and forest - especially in the Amazon River basin - which only 1.7 million are under the protection of the State. The rest is in private hands, or of his right of property is not defined.
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