The fisherwoman's daughter who stood up for the Magdalena River just won the 'Green Nobel'

Yuvelis Morales Blanco grew up in an Afro-Colombian fishing village where oil spills on the Magdalena River meant her family went hungry. She started going door to door as a teenager to warn her neighbors about fracking, survived death threats and exile, and never backed down. Her persistence paid off: fracking pilot projects along the river were halted, and a court later ruled they had violated her community's right to be heard.