This tendency of women activists to take the leading role in the environmentalism of the poor is manifested in examples such as the Chipko movement in India, the Kenyan Green Belt Movement or the opposition to the Agua Zarca Hydroelectrical Project, and embodied in persons such as Berta Cáceres, Lesbia Urquía, Jeannette Kawas or Margarita Murillo, all of whom fought against environmental degradation in Honduras and were assassinated for it.
