Mamamia chats with Indigenous climate change activist Amelia Telford.

Amelia Telford is the National Director for the Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network.

A proud Aboriginal and South Sea Islander woman from Bundjalung country, she first became interested in environmental justice while she was in high school.

“For a lot of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander young people we are so connected to our country and to the places that mean a lot to our people and our cultures and protecting it is a part of our responsibility for living in this world and in Australia,” she told Mamamia when she came into the Sydney office recently.

“I’ve been fortunate to feel such a strong connection to the land and to where I come from and to my family.

“We live in a country that has a very rich, old history, tens of thousand of years of Aboriginal people living here but it’s one that often gets overlooked.”

You can watch the full interview above and find out more about Amelia and Seed here.