José Andrés Tamayo Cortez
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José Andrés Tamayo Cortez is a Honduran Catholic priest and environmentalist
, a leader of the Environmental Movement of Olancho. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
in 2005, for his efforts of organizing resistance against commercial logging in the Olancho Department.
Environmentalist
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
, a leader of the Environmental Movement of Olancho. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
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. The prize includes a no-strings-attached award of...
in 2005, for his efforts of organizing resistance against commercial logging in the Olancho Department.