Yvonne Margarula

Yvonne Margarula is the Senior Traditional Owner and leader of the Mirarr people in the north of the Northern Territory of Australia.

She is an Aboriginal Australian environmentalist who won the 1998 Friends of the Earth International Environment Award and the 1998 Nuclear-Free Future Award. She also won the 1999 US Goldman Environmental Prize, with Jacqui Katona, in recognition of efforts to protect their Country and culture against uranium mining.

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