Flaviano Bianchini a human rights defender and environmentalist with the Mother Jungle Collective (Colectivo Madre Selva) in Guatemala has been the subject of a series of threats and acts of intimidation since 12 January 2007.
Bianchini recently carried out studies about the contamination of the Río Tzalá in the Sipakapa area of Guatemala in the San Marco department in which he denounced the presence of mining products in the water. 
