Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016) (Lenca) was a Honduran environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque.
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4 March 1971 La Esperanza, Honduras
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Died |
3 March 2016 (aged 44) La Esperanza, Honduras
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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