Berito Kuwaru'wa is a member of the
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
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U'wa people
The U'wa are an indigenous people living in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia. Historically, the U'wa numbered as many as 20,000, scattered over a homeland that extended across the Venezuela-Colombia border. Some 7-8,000 U'wa are alive t ...
. He was awarded the
Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. ...
in 1998
[Goldman Environmental
Prize]
Berito Kuwaru'wa
(Retrieved on November 28, 2007) for his role as spokesperson in conflicts between the U'wa people and the
petroleum industry
The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products. The larges ...
.
References
Colombian environmentalists
Living people
Colombian people of indigenous peoples descent
Indigenous activists of the Americas
Year of birth missing (living people)
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees
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