When Cooktown's Larissa Hale heard she had been entered in Prince William's second annual Earthshot Prize Awards, she was stunned.
"I didn't enter, I wasn't even aware that I was nominated," she says, admitting she didn't know much about the royal prize, which aims to search out and fund cutting-edge solutions to save our planet.
Hale later found out that her colleagues at The Great Barrier Reef Foundation had put her ground-breaking Indigenous women rangers' program forward.
