Isidro Baldenegro López

Isidro Baldenegro López is a farmer and community leader of Mexico's indigenous Tarahumara people in Sierra Madre, and an environmental activist who has fought against unregulated logging in his region.

After being arrested in 2003 he was adopted as a prisoner of conscience by the Amnesty International,[1] and was released after 15 months in prison, being acquitted of all charges.[2][3]

He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 for his efforts on defending old growth forests from devastating logging.[4]

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