Dorothy Stang died on February 12, 2005, in Anapu, Par, Brazil of shot.

Sister Dorothy Mae Stang [July 7, 1931-February 12, 2005] was a nun who tried to improve the lives of the poor and end the deforestation of a section of the Brazilian Amazon. She was an American born member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She became a naturalized Brazilian citizen in the course of over three decades of living with the poor in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Para. Her efforts on behalf of the Brazilian poor and the Brazilian rain forest were cut short with her murder in the town of Anapu. She was on her way to a community meeting on behalf of poor farmers when she was shot to death.