This year’s Goldman Environmental Prize cohort is the first in the award's history to be composed entirely of women
Among the recipients is Colombian rights of nature activist Yuvelis Morales Blanco, recognized for her grassroots mobilization against fracking
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Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize winners! 🏆🌎
Discover their stories: goldmanprize.org/2026
#GoldmanPrize
Today, as a Judge of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, Yuvelis continues to defend rivers, territories, and the communities that protect them.
✊ Share her story. Voices that defend life must be heard. Congratulations, Yuvelis!
At just 21, after repeated threats, she was forced to flee Colombia. But even from exile, she continued speaking out, addressing Colombian Congress and advocating internationally.
🏆 We celebrate 2026 @goldmanprize.bsky.social winner: Yuvelis Morales 🇨🇴
Born beside the Magdalena River in Puerto Wilches, Colombia, Yuvelis grew up understanding water as life. When fracking projects threatened her community in 2019, she co-founded AguaWil to say: No to fracking. Yes to the river.
El Tribunal reitera su respaldo a las personas defensoras de la Madre Tierra y exige la revocación de esta sanción y el cumplimiento de la voluntad popular.
Defender la Naturaleza no es un delito. El Yasuní se respeta, y el petróleo queda bajo tierra.
La sanción es desproporcionada y sienta un preocupante precedente de criminalización contra defensorxs de la Naturaleza.
Yasunidos ha sido fundamental en la defensa del Yasuní y en la consulta popular de 2023, donde lxs ecuatorianxs decidieron mantener el petróleo bajo tierra.
⚠️🇪🇨 El Tribunal de los Derechos de la Naturaleza expresa su rechazo a la multa impuesta contra el colectivo Yasunidos por USD 18 mil por parte del Tribunal Electoral en Ecuador en un caso que incluye una diferencia contable mínima.
🌿🚆 ¡MÍRALO AHORA! Seminario Internacional sobre los impactos del Tren Maya
La Universidad Autónoma de Quintana Roo convocó a este espacio de análisis sobre los impactos del Tren Maya, con participación del Tribunal de los Derechos de la Naturaleza ⚖️🌎
El Tribunal Internacional de los Derechos de la Naturaleza entrega su sentencia sobre minería en Ecuador a la Embajada de Canadá 🇪🇨🇨🇦 La Secretaria del Tribunal Natalia Greene y el juez Alberto Acosta hicieron la presentación en Quito.
👉 Lee la sentencia completa aquí: bit.ly/sentencia-ecuador
A fossil fuel-free future is possible and a transition we must build together now. From the Heart of the World, a call: Life up. Fossil fuels down.
Join us in Santa Marta: 🔗 bit.ly/fossil-fuel-free
⚖️ Key moments:
➡️ Conference for Fossil Fuel-Free Territories (Apr 24–25)
➡️ People’s Summit (Apr 24–26)
➡️ #RightsofNatureTribunal – Reception of cases of fossil fuel extraction in the Amazon (Apr 26)
➡️ Conference on Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels (Apr 28–29)
Join us: 🔗 bit.ly/fossil-fuel-free
Join us for the First Conference for Fossil Fuel-Free Territories, a space to connect struggles, strengthen strategies, and advance Rights of Nature approaches that protect the Amazon and all life.
Join us in Santa Marta: 🔗 bit.ly/fossil-fuel-free
🌍 A turning point for a fossil fuel-free future
📍 Santa Marta, Colombia | 🗓 24–29 April 2026
After COP30 failed to deliver a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, communities from the Amazon to the world are rising to end fossil fuels.
Join us: 🔗 bit.ly/fossil-fuel-free
🌿🚆 Seminario Internacional sobre los impactos del Tren Maya en DDHH, los territorios y la Naturaleza, convocado por la Universidad Autónoma de Quintana Roo
📅 14 de abril, 9 AM (Quintana Roo)
📍 Auditorio Yuri Knórozov, Campus Chetumal Bahía
➡️ This Policy responds to that reality: it recognizes defenders’ legitimacy and strengthens collective protection systems, while affirming that protecting Nature and protecting those who defend it are inseparable.
📄 Access the full Policy: rightsofnaturetribunal.org/digital-library
⚠️ Defenders are treated as obstacles to extractive economies, facing legal harassment, surveillance, and physical threats. In Honduras alone, 94 attacks have been recorded, most occurring after Berta’s killing.
On the 10th anniversary of defender Berta Cáceres’ assassination, the Tribunal launched this policy with a webinar to address a global pattern of violence, criminalization, and impunity.
Did you know the #RightsofNatureTribunal has a new Policy on Defenders of Mother Earth and Territories? 🌿✊
📄 Access the full Policy: rightsofnaturetribunal.org/digital-library
📚🌍 Introducing: The #RightsofNatureTribunal Digital Library, a comprehensive, public repository of the Tribunal’s work that scopes from foundational texts to our latest judgments ⚖️ 🌎✊🌿
➡️ Access it at rightsofnaturetribunal.org/digital-library
🎬 A World Devouring Machine: a film by Selina Giorgio, filmed during #RightsofNatureTribunal's visit to Carajás, Brazil, from the largest open-pit iron ore mine on the planet to the territories that bear its consequences.
📍 Festival CINEFRONT
🗓 12–16 April
📌 Carajás Curva do S, Eldorado (PA)
🌊 🇪🇨 El río Portoviejo en Ecuador ahora tiene derechos: Un tribunal ha reconocido al río como sujeto de derechos, y ordenó su restauración ecológica integral, reparaciones para las comunidades, y estableció lxs Guardianxs del Río Portoviejo.
📄 Lee la sentencia:
www.garn.org/wp-content/u...
🔴 LIVE! We Are Nature Defending Itself — a tribute to Berta Cáceres and the presentation of the Policy on Defenders of Mother Earth and Territories by the #RightsofNatureTribunal.
JOIN US: bit.ly/tribunal-def...
🎧 English–Spanish interpretation available.
🔴 ¡EN VIVO! Somos la Naturaleza que se Defiende — homenaje a Berta Cáceres y presentación de la Política sobre Defensorxs de la Madre Tierra y los Territorios del Tribunal de los Derechos de la Naturaleza
ÚNETE: bit.ly/tribunal-policy-defenders
🎧 Interpretación inglés–español disponible
🌿✊🏽 Somos la Naturaleza que se Defiende: Homenaje a Berta Cáceres y presentación de la Política sobre Defensoras y Defensores de la Madre Tierra y los Territorios
📅 2 de marzo
🕙 10:00–11:30 (hora de Quito)
🔗 Registro: bit.ly/tribunal-defenders-policy
🌎 Interpretación inglés–español disponible
🌿✊🏽 We Are Nature Defending Itself: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres & the Policy on Defenders of Mother Earth and Territories
📅 2 March 2026
🕙 10:00–11:30 (Quito time)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/tribunal-defenders-policy
🌎 English–Spanish interpretation available
Defending Mother Earth is defending life 🙌🏽🌱
Ecuador y Colombia protagonizan un enfrentamiento comercial, económico y político por los aranceles de la energía. Sobre el tema habla el juez del Tribunal Alberto Acosta: es.mongabay.com/2026/02/la-minería-illeg...
⚖️🌳 La Amazonía habló. El Tribunal escuchó.
📣 De la Amazonía al mundo: no hay justicia climática sin Derechos de la Naturaleza.
👉 Mirá el Tribunal completo:
rightsofnaturetribunal.org/a-new-pledge-for-mother-nature-tribunal-2025/?lang=es
📣 From the Amazon to the world, the message of the 6th International #RightsofNatureTribunal is clear: there is no climate justice without Rights of Nature.
👉 Watch the full Tribunal and read A New Pledge for Mother Nature:
rightsofnaturetribunal.org/a-new-pledge-for-mother-nature-tribunal-2025/
✅ The 6th International #RightsofNatureTribunal session closed with concrete outcomes: after hearing 17 fossil fuel and mining cases, the judges launched A New Pledge for Mother Nature and a Policy on the Rights of the Defenders of Mother Earth.
