Environmental lawyer and spokesperson for the collective “Or de question / No Way” opposed to the «Golden Mountain» and the mining industry in Guyana, Marine Calmet advocates for the rights of nature. One foot in the Amazon and the other in mainland France, she develops new responses to the ecological crisis, inspired by the intelligence of ecosystems and the knowledge of indigenous peoples. At thirty-three years old, she is president of Wild Legal, an association whose mission is to be a school and an incubator for the next lawsuits in defense of the rights of nature. She was an expert for the French Citizen’s Climate Convention, and she fights for the recognition of the crime of ecocide. *
She is the author of the book “Becoming Guardians of Nature” (Ed. Tana 2021), which was awarded with the book prize of the European Institute of Ecology.