Climate activist and youth advisor to the UN Secretary-General Archana Soreng belongs to an indigenous community in India. She takes inspiration from her grandfather, a pioneer of community-led forest protection, and her father, an indigenous health practitioner, in her call for upholding the rights of indigenous peoples, and restoring the world’s relationship with nature.
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