“I’d like to tell you the reasons why our husbands were killed. They fought for the conservation of their lands. They fought for their land rights … And they also fought against illegal logging on our lands,” says Ergilia Rengifo of her late husband Jorge Ríos, who was murdered in September. “It saddens me greatly because they leave a great hole, and they leave us as widows and their children without fathers.”

She and Julia Pérez appeared on Democracy Now! today in an interview live from the U.N. climate summit in Lima, Peru. Global Witness says that Peru is one of the most dangerous countries for environmental and indigenous activists.