Colombia: This Woman Who Saved Her Afro-Colombian Community’s Land from Illegal Gold Miners Won Prestigious Prize

Apr 26, 2018 | Remezcla
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Every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors those working to protect the earth on a grassroots level. The organization scours all continents for environmental heroes who have had a significant environmental achievement. This year, it awarded Francia Márquez, a woman fighting for her Afro-Colombian community in La Toma. Márquez and a group of women successfully stopped illegal gold mining on their ancestral land.