Juan Lopez is the fourth member of an environmental activism group based in in Tocoa to be killed since 2023. President Xiomara Castro condemned the murder and has ordered an investigation.

Environmental activist Juan Lopez, who opposed mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras, was killed Saturday night. Lopez, part of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods,

López’s death is the latest in a series of killings in a country known to be particularly deadly for environmental activists.

An anti-mining activist was shot and killed in Honduras, President Xiomara Castro said, vowing justice for the latest such murder in one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmentalists.

An environmental activist who protested mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras in an effort to preserve tropical forests and rivers has been killed, police said on Sunday.