Ambassador Kennedy calls Earthshot Prize finalist Larissa Hale 

Larissa Hale is a Yuku Baja Muliku woman from Cape York Queensland. She is Managing Director for Yuku Baja Muliku Land Corporation and was instrumental in founding the Yuku Baja Muliku Indigenous Land & Sea Ranger Program, The Archer Point Turtle Hospital and the YBM Junior Ranger Program. Larissa is also a Councillor with Cook Shire Council and a member of a number of committees in the Cape York and Great Barrier Reef Region.