2024 Stanford Bright Award winner Rodrigo Botero Garcia is a leading environmental activist in Colombia who has dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest and advocating for local communities and indigenous land rights.

As part of this work, he has had to negotiate with groups who seek to occupy and exploit the Amazonian region—including armed rebels engaged in illegal mining and drug trafficking. And he has done this in what has been ranked as the world’s most dangerous country for environmental activists and people who defend land rights for indigenous people.

Join Botero Garcia at SLS on October 8 for the Stanford Bright Award to hear about these negotiations and his work to expand Chiribiquete National Park, the heart of the Colombian Amazon. The park is now the largest protected area in Colombia and a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.

Read more about the Bright Award winner here.