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"In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of Mother Earth. Season 5, Part...
. Haile, South Carolina industrial gold mine For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332Heidi Dhivya Berthoud, heidi@vacommunityrights.org,...
Photo by Andreas Kay (https://bit.ly/3uqwqGE) Contact: Constanza Prieto Figelist, Earth Law Center,+1 (202) 621-3877 cpfigelist@earthlaw.orgNatalia Greene, Alianza Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza, +593 99 944 3724, nati.greene@gmail.comAlejandro...
The fate of some of Ecuador's last remaining cloud forests and hundreds of livelihoods rests on the outcome of a trailblazing Rights of Nature case concerning two tiny amphibians. Read the full article at Ecologist - Informed by Nature, Jan 11, 2021 Other key issues...
Are Regulatory Agencies a Good Thing? by Jane Anne Morris A third of your friends are locked down in an old growth grove or at a corporate headquarters, with law enforcement officers rubbing pepper spray in their eyes. Another third are preparing testimony so you can...
Rugged individualism has served America well in some respects. It’s created many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and decades of economic growth. But has individualism gone too far? The collective mentality often goes into binary thinking: it’s...
Rights of Nature (recognition that all life has equal right to exist, thrive and evolve) is the fastest-growing legal and ethical movement in the world. Our legal system shapes our worldview. Advancing social and environmental justice requires us to take a closer look...
Join our Photo Project We want to decorate our website with more pictures of people who want to protect the rights that Nature has: to exist, flourish, regenerate, evolve and be restored. Will you like to help? Make a sign choosing from suggested messages and...
Wild Virginia interviewed the Virginia Community Rights Network (VACRN) about their work in elevating the rights of Nature and Communities who value nature as a whole. VACRN represents a new paradigm in how to fight for the environment, as part of the environment....
Imperiled Lake Erie must be protected. Lake Erie Bill of Rights lives to fight another day, but still faces obstacles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 2, 2020 TOLEDO, OH: Yesterday, an Ohio court of appeals reversed a previous trial court order, ruling residents suing to...