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Jean La Rose
Born6 May 1962
Santa Rosa, Guyana
NationalityGuyanese
Known forGrassroots environmentalism
AwardsGoldman Environmental Prize (2002)

Jean La Rose (born 6 May 1962) is an Arawak environmentalist and indigenous rights activist in Guyana. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002 for her work to halt mining in their territories, to secure inhabitants full rights to traditional lands, and to save Guyana's forests.[1]

She is the Executive Director of Amerindian Peoples Association which was founded in 1991, La Rose joining in 1994. She worked with Oxfam charities for funding.[2]

According to La Rose, bringing indigenous issues to the national stage is to "preserve the environment in a wholesome way. We want to do our farming yes, We want to preserve our cultural sites. We want to preserve our languages. We can still preserve many of these things if legislation and policy protects us."[2]

  1. ^ Goldman Environmental Prize: Jean La Rose Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on November 10, 2007)
  2. ^ a b "APA: 28 years of fighting for Indigenous People's rights". Kaieteur News. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

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