Berta Cáceres, a Honduran environmental activist38

Berta Isabel Cáceres was a Honduran environmental activist, indigenous leader and co-founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) which is dedicated to the defense of the environment in Intibucá and the defense of the indigenous Lenca people, she was the coordinator of this organization. In 2015 she won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam at the Río Gualcarque, after years of threats against her life, on March 02, 2016 she was assassinated in her home by armed intruders. But her legacy continues and thousands of Hondurans were influenced by her work as an actives and was respected as a person fighting for a better planet and justice for indigenous communities in Latin Americas as well as around the world.