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Berta Cáceres
Activist · 1973–2016
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About Berta Cáceres
Berta Cáceres was a Honduran Lenca environmental and Indigenous-rights activist who co-founded COPINH in 1993. She led grassroots resistance to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, defending the Gualcarque River and Lenca territorial rights. Her work earned the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize and helped pressure major project backers to withdraw.
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Read quote → ✓Source verified“We must undertake the struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no other spare or replacement planet. We have only this one, and we have to take action.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“I am a human rights fighter and I will not give up this fight.”