On August 25, 2013, mining was rejected in an open town hall assembly in the municipality of Sabá, Colón, in northern Honduras. Residents of Danlí, El Paraíso, in eastern Honduras, followed suit on October 22, 2013.

On March 28, 2014, thousands of residents marched against natural resource exploitation in the municipality of El Negrito, Yoro. The action ended in an open town hall assembly with the mayor proclaiming El Negrito to be free from mining and declaring a logging ban.

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