Goldman Prize Winner Murdered in Honduras

Environment News Service: A indigenous Lenca woman who was honored with a 2015 Goldman Prize last year for her fight against a destructive dam, was killed by gunmen last night in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. Berta Cáceres won a $175,000 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to defend the Gualcarque River, its environment and people from the Agua Zarca Dam. If built, the dam would cut off the supply of water, food and medicine for hundreds of Lenca people and violate their right to sustainably manage and live off......

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