🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In Scotland, the Ocean now has a seat at the boardroom table: The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has appointed a trustee to represent the ocean in its board meetings and decision-making. Environmental lawyer Helen Mitcheson is the first person to hold the role.

Rights of Nature movement grows, with the Wye and Ouse subject to new protection charters Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/vdgfsxmgiw

🐝 Legal Rights Granted to Stingless Bees in the Amazon Could Inspire Similar Protections for Insects Worldwide  https://f.mtr.cool/yxguzgzjgb

🇪🇨 Caso Ecuador: Expansión XI Ronda Petrolera ⚖️ 3ra Sesión Regional del Tribunal de los Derechos de la Naturaleza por una Amazonía libre de Combustibles Fósiles ⚖️ Registro en persona: bit.ly/tribunal-ecuador o en línea: bit.ly/tribunal-amazonia-online

🌿🇬🇧 The Avon Bioregion Charter of Rights, which outlines the rights of River Avon, is being considered by councils operating around the river’s catchment, town and parish councils: https://f.mtr.cool/mxamufsami

🐋 In New Zealand, the proposed Tohorā Oranga Bill could recognize the rights of whales. But at the same time, weakened protections threaten the last 51 Rice whales in the Gulf of Mexico: https://f.mtr.cool/vvwlglooce

Around the world, more and more communities are giving nature rights – which makes it illegal to harm the Earth. The Rights of Nature movement is building momentum in 700 communities across 66 countries, reminding us that systemic change starts locally. betterfuturemedia.substack.com/p/rights-of-...

Somabha Bandopadhyay shares insights from the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature on advancing legal recognition for nature and integrating ecological justice into policy. Watch this Festival of Revolutions conversation: youtu.be/riVIoyB_qXA

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Somabha Bandopadhyay shares insights from the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature on advancing legal recognition for nature and integrating ecological justice into policy. Support Rev21:…

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“Indigenous groups have long understood that humans and nature should be in reciprocal relationship.” “What the Rights of Nature movement does is provide a legal mechanism to build toward this future.” #RightsOfNature #GoodClimateNews

This global movement is winning legal rights for nature.

A Canadian town just became the latest community to grant legal rights to nature, joining a fast-growing movement aiming to reshape humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

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Seis países, seis territorios y una Amazonía que resiste el avance de la frontera fósil ✊🌎 El 19 de agosto, el Tribunal escuchará seis casos emblemáticos atravesados por el mismo patrón: expansión petrolera sin consulta 🇪🇨🇧🇷🇨🇴🇻🇪🇵🇪🇧🇴 bit.ly/tribunal-amazonia

⚖️ 🌿 El Tribunal de los Derechos de la Naturaleza celebra su 3ª sesión regional en XII FOSPA para examinar seis casos de expansión fósil que amenazan a la Amazonía y a los pueblos que la habitan. 📍 Casa de la Cultura Benjamín Carrión, Puyo, Ecuador 🗓️ 19 ago, 9-16h Más info: bit.ly/tribunal-amazonia

‘Pollute us and we’ll sue you’: The quest to give Europe’s lakes and forests legal rights Read article: https://f.mtr.cool/rvaolusfpf

First British river granted legal rights. Is this a breakthrough in water protection? The River Wye flows through Wales and England and has been recognized as a living ecosystem with inherent rights along its 210-kilometre course: https://f.mtr.cool/yhoroxmedp

Our first-ever official presence at London Climate Action Week 2026, and what a week it was! 🌍 We came to a space where Rights of Nature is still taking root in the UK and Europe & we left with new relationships across the movement here. Full recap: garn.org/london-climate-action-week-2026

🎥 Watch now: 🌳Third session of GARN’s Asia-Pacific Hub webinar series: Exploring the Rights of Nature in the Philippines!  🌏✨

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The idea that Nature has rights is slowly unfolding within progressive legal circles like a Namaqua daisy in the first light of spring. At its root is extraordinary thinker Thomas Berry: https://f.mtr.cool/qwpfjjxpkh

🐋🇲🇽 En México, el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo inauguró la exposición Desde el umbral, que cuestiona la ruptura entre humanidad y Naturaleza: https://f.mtr.cool/vjbemolbvk

⚖️🌿 The International #RightsofNatureTribunal has formally submitted its findings on the Dundee Precious Metals mining project in Serbia’s Homolje region to the Bureau of the Bern Convention More information: www.rightsofnaturetribunal.org/bern-convent...

Stressing importance of a shift to a #RightsofNature paradigm, Natalia Greene of @garnglobal.bsky.social highlights the proposed Declaration does not aim to replace human rights, but strengthen them "because there cannot be lasting human rights on a dying planet." 🎞️ youtu.be/c__6wKGTAJc

Lovely piece on how bees influence human decision-making in an Indigenous community in Kenya: radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/tharaka-ance... @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @yuvanaves.bsky.social @garnglobal.bsky.social #earthygovernance #rightsofnature

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Simon Mitambo In the Tharaka community of Kenya, the living world has always been understood as a council that includes more than human voices. Simon Mitambo shares how earthy governance in Tharaka…

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Open (free) access online to a new Rights of Nature book from the Max Planck Institute suggested by @garnglobal.bsky.social. "Global Legal Pluralism and Rights of Nature offers a deep dive into ecological jurisprudence..." www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/glob...

🔥🌎 In new research, @garnyouthhub.bsky.social  Facilitator Tosana Töben examines the 2024 wildfires in Bolivia's Monte Verde Indigenous Territory through a more-than-human political ecology lens: https://f.mtr.cool/tlagbkyand

Lo demandan, lo defienden y lo representan - En Nueva Zelanda, un río se convirtió en un símbolo cuando sus derechos fueron reconocidos: https://f.mtr.cool/lxgwtiwfho

🌳 Rights of Nature in The New York Times: Who Speaks for the Trees? A Tiny Quebec Town. Terrasse-Vaudreuil has adopted a resolution to protect trees as living beings. Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/lardvcwzjn

💧🇪🇸 El Mar Menor como víctima: En el primer juicio con un ecosistema, representantes de la laguna piden medio millón de euros de indemnización a dos empresas agrícolas. https://f.mtr.cool/xsskmgwgmo

🍃 Rights of Nature article in the BBC: Could legal 'personhood' help save Lough Neagh? The former lawyer who secured a Rights of Nature recognition for a Spanish saltwater lagoon believes it could.  Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/fylnywxrfj

🇪🇨 Rights of Nature news: An Ecuadorian court has ordered the revocation of 17 mining concessions in the Ortega River basin after ruling that mining activities violated the Rights of Nature. More info: https://f.mtr.cool/etxmcheghz

🌳🇨🇦 Rights of Nature news: First municipality in Canada recognizes trees as living beings with rights On June 9, the municipal council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Quebec, unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing trees' rights to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration.

🌍 Is a new Copernican Revolution already underway? What if the next great shift in human thinking isn't about our place in the universe, but our place within the living world?  Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/wzwtqkmvem

Las guerras han perfeccionado su capacidad de contabilizar la muerte. Sin embargo, esta precisión revela siempre un vacío: se oculta sistemáticamente la devastación de la tierra y los ecosistemas. Por Esperanza Martínez. https://f.mtr.cool/adrrgfdbvz