Mexican Forest Guardian May Have Been Murdered

[douglas9]

OCAMPO, Mexico (AP) — An anti-logging activist prominent in efforts to protect a Mexican forest where monarch butterflies spend the winter suffered head trauma and drowning, authorities said Thursday night, adding weight to the fears that he was murdered.

Even before the announcement, relatives of Homero Gómez González speculated his death wasn’t accidental and said bad things are happening to human rights and environmental activists in Mexico, and people are afraid.

“Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society,” the dead man’s brother, Amado Gómez, said Thursday at the funeral.

The body was discovered Wednesday in a holding pond near the mountain forest reserve that Gómez González long protected. Michoacán state prosecutors said a few hours later that an initial review indicated drowning and found no signs of trauma, but their latest statement said more detailed autopsy results produced evidence of a head injury.

Authorities gave no other information on the injury and did not say how it might have been inflicted. They said an investigation continued, suggesting the case was not considered an accident.

https://www.courthousenews.com/mexican-forest-guardian-may-have-been-murdered/

[Zoonart]

1. Of course he was.

Let's not forget that he stood athwart Hair Fuhrer's wall.

[Mickju]

2. We are entering a very dark period for the human race.

Which will ultimately spell our doom.

[Duppers]

4. Indeed.

Difficult for me not to be depressed.

Humans are so selfish, so delusional, and so ego-driven that we're self-destructing.

[douglas9]

3. Homero Gmez: Missing Mexican butterfly activist found dead

Homero Gómez, 50, managed a butterfly sanctuary in the town of Ocampo in Michoacán state, a region notorious for its violent criminal gangs.

His body was found with no apparent signs of violence near where he was seen for the last time.

Prosecutors are still investigating the case.

Rights groups had earlier said they feared that Gómez might have been targeted because of his fight against illegal logging, one of the activities that criminal gangs in the area are involved in.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51304857