Rodolfo Montiel Flores

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Rodolfo Montiel Flores
NationalityMexican
Occupation Campesino
Awards Goldman Environmental Prize (2000)

Rodolfo Montiel Flores is a Mexican campesino, a subsistence farmer, from the village El Mameyal in the state of Guerrero, Mexico.

He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000 [1] for organizing campesinos to protest against rampant logging in their district.

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References

  1. Goldman Environmental Prize: Rodolfo Montiel Flores (Retrieved on December 16, 2016)