Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia's Magdalena River

At 24, Yuvelis Morales Blanco became one of the youngest Goldman Prize winners for co-founding Aguawil and organising her Afro-Colombian fishing community to successfully block fracking on the Magdalena River — ultimately contributing to Colombia's nationwide fracking moratorium.

Why this matters → She achieved in years what decades of policy advocacy had not — by treating the river as life itself rather than as a resource, and by organising at the scale where power actually lived.