Resistance by the local population against large industrial corporations in Latin America often resembles David against Goliath. This is also the case in the Sawré Muybu indigenous area in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil. It is home to the indigenous Munduruku people, who have been fighting legal and illegal mining in the region since the 1980s, most recently against the British company Anglo American in particular. 39-year-old Alessandra Korap is one of the most prominent environmental activists. This year she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, also known as the „Green Nobel Prize.“