Lawyer in environmental lawyer and spokesperson for the mouvement Or de question opposed to the “Montagne d’or” project and the mining industry in French Guiana, Marine Calmet campaigns for the recognition of the rights of nature. With one foot in the Amazon and the other in metropolitan France, she develops new responses to the ecological crisis, inspired by the intelligence of ecosystems and the knowledge of indigenous peoples. At thirty two, she is president of Wild Legal, an NGO whose mission is to be a school and an incubator for future trials in defense of the rights of nature. She is the author of the book Devenir Gardiens de la Nature (Becoming Nature’s Guardians), book prize of the European Institute of Ecology in 2022.
