María Laura Tolmos, 37, turned a childhood in the Amazon into her life’s work

Mongabay
Jul 6, 2026, 3:45 pm204 ptsTrendingTop
Maria Laura Tolmos Coquelet grew up in the Peruvian Amazon. As a child, she explored rivers by kayak and looked for animals along the banks. Nature was not a distant idea to her. It was home, and it shaped the course of her life. Tolmos, who died of breast cancer on June 21st in Barcelona, aged 37, became a…

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