Nina Gualinga

Nina Gualinga
Born1993 (age 30–31)
Sarayaku, Ecuador
Alma materLund University
Occupation(s)Climate Activist and indigenous rights Defender
Known forEnvironmental activism
RelativesHelena Gualinga (sister)

Patricia Gualinga (aunt)

Noemí Gualinga (mother)
Awards2018 WWF International President's Youth award

Nina Gualinga (born June 1993)[1] is an Ecuadorian environmental and indigenous rights activist. She is part of the Kichwa-speaking community and has spent most of her life advocating for better environmental protection of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the inhabitant wildlife as well as the people who are dependent on this environment.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Nina Gualinga, la luchadora ambiental que batalla contra la violencia de género". El Universo (in Spanish). 4 July 2020. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Activist Nina Gualinga on protecting the Amazon". World Wildlife Magazine. World Wildlife Fund. Winter 2018. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Environmental and indigenous rights activist to receive WWF's top youth conservation award". World Wide Fund For Nature (Press release). Cartagena. 8 May 2018. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.