Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)

🌿💚 Big win for the Rights of Nature at the @worldfuturecouncil.org’s World Policy Awards during the IUCN Congress! 5 of 7 winning policies are Rights of Nature policies, a clear sign that Nature-centric governance is becoming reality 🌎✨ 🏆 Congrats to Panama, Spain, NZ, Uganda & the BBNJ Agreement 🌱

Do rivers and whales have legal rights?

Campaigners for giving ‘legal personhood’ to the natural world sense they are winning the argument. Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/upsxyazfky

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🎉🌍 Huge victory for Rights of Nature & Earth law at the IUCN World Conservation Congress!

ALL five Rights of Nature motions, and Motion 061 on recognizing the crime of ecocide, have passed! 🌿⚖️

More information: www.garn.org/iucn-2025/

🚨🇪🇨✊ El Tribunal Internacional de los Derechos de la Naturaleza se pronuncia: Alto a la represión en Ecuador

El Tribunal condena la violencia desmedida del ejército y la policía contra comunidades y civiles que ejercen su derecho constitucional a la resistencia. 🧵👇

Around the world, #women are redefining humanity’s bond with the planet, leading the Earth Law and Rights of #Nature movement that grants #rivers, #forests, and #ecosystems the right to exist, thrive, and regenerate — transforming both policy and our view of life itself. #ClimateAction

🌿 Meet Dr. Mika Peck, conservation ecologist, founder of EcoForensic, and pioneer of paraecology, training communities as “paramedics for the planet.”

Hear how science & community power helped win Ecuador’s Los Cedros Rights of Nature case.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature

🌿 Meet Dr. Mika Peck, conservation ecologist, founder of EcoForensic, and pioneer of paraecology, training communities as “paramedics for the planet.”

Hear how science & community power helped win Ecuador’s Los Cedros Rights of Nature case.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature

A few hours ago, at #IUCNCongress, motion 67 'Living in harmony with rivers through the rights of nature and ecocentric law' adopted by a huge majority -an exciting step forward in recognition of #RightsofWetlands - with more #RightsofNature motions to come... iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot...

🌱 Can citizen science help defend Nature in court?

Dr. Mika Peck, founder of EcoForensic and pioneer of paraecology, joins us to explore how science can empower communities to protect ecosystems, and how this helped win Ecuador’s Los Cedros case.

🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature

#ClimateWeekNYC is over but the impact continues! Read the Rights of Nature Tribunal recap below 📖👀

🌍 ✊ From Indigenous-led calls to action to a landmark #RightsofNatureTribunal verdict against fossil fuels, the Rights of Nature movement took center stage at #ClimateWeekNYC.

🔗 Read the full recap & catch up with the events: www.garn.org/garn-at-clim...

#RightsofNature #COP30 #ClimateJustice

Foto de Jan Boeve, "Tercera confluencia de aguas Europeas", este año en Bergen,Holanda.El Mar Menor en el foco de la actualidad en derechos de la Naturaleza.

Our story also covers how Ecuador's President has won approval to ask voters for permission to rewrite the constitution.

Doing so could strip Ecuador's recognition of nature's rights from the constitution, in what would be a significant blow to the worldwide rights of nature movement.

The International Rights of Nature Tribunal convened during Climate Week 2025 in New York to spotlight some of today’s most pressing ecological and human rig... International Rights of Nature Tribunal: Defending Earth, People and Climate against Fossil Fuels

In case you missed it: ⚖️ International Rights of Nature Tribunal: Defending Earth, People and Climate against Fossil Fuels @ Climate Week NYC

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“Indigenous Rights and Rights of Nature are not different. But if we don't work in unity to save what we have left we cannot achieve the balance needed."

His words call us to unity — to honor Indigenous knowledge and act together to protect all life.

#ClimateWeek #RightsOfNature #IndigenousWisdom

The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights - Inside Climate News A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next.

The rights of nature is one of the fastest-growing movements on the planet. Now, scientists are increasingly signing on, working with Indigenous communities and others to advance laws and philosophies on behalf of the more-than-human world.

The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights - Inside Climate News A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next.

A new front has emerged in the rights of nature movement: collaborations between Western scientists and Indigenous peoples

This is the first of a few stories I have coming on the topic. It's focused on the scientists who have been flooding into the movement

insideclimatenews.org/news/0510202...

Mia MacDonald and Natalia Greene of @garnglobal.bsky.social delivering GARN's report to the Mexican consulate. GARN's tribunal will examine how factory farms are polluting water and affecting Indigenous in the Yucatan. www.garn.org/rights-of-na... #ClimateWeekNYC #RightsofNature #factoryfarming

📣🌿  From every corner of the globe, defenders of Mother Earth are uniting in Belém, Brazil for GARN’s Pre-COP30 Summit. Join us! 

🗓️ Join us from November 8–11 in Belém for four days of celebration, strategy, and resistance.

🔗 Learn more: garn.org/garns-pre-cop30-summit

🎧 New #RightsofNature podcast episode! Nature’s Paramedics: Paraecology, Merging Science and Community Action 🌳🚑 

We speak with Dr. Mika Peck about paraecology: the equivalent of a paramedic for the biodiversity and climate crises 👉 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
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Hoy lloramos su partida, pero también celebramos su legado. Su espíritu seguirá vivo en cada lucha por la justicia ecológica y en cada ser vivo que sigue habitando la Tierra gracias a su trabajo. Gracias, Jane, por mostrarnos cómo defender a la Naturaleza con valentía, sabiduría y compasión. 🌿🐒

Apoyó activamente iniciativas que buscan reconocer a los ecosistemas como sujetos de derechos, como lo hizo firmando cartas en defensa del bosque nublado de Los Cedros en Ecuador, cuya victoria histórica marcó un hito en la jurisprudencia de los Derechos de la Naturaleza.

Jane fue una gran aliada de la causa de los Derechos de la Naturaleza: A lo largo de su vida, usó su voz para denunciar la destrucción de la vida y para abrir caminos hacia un nuevo paradigma de respeto y reciprocidad.

Con profundo dolor, desde la Alianza despedimos a Jane Goodall, una de las más grandes defensoras de la vida en nuestro planeta.

Su incansable compromiso por los animales, los ecosistemas y por un mundo más justo y armonioso con la Naturaleza fue una inspiración inmensa para nuestro movimiento.

Today we grieve her departure, but we also celebrate her legacy. Her spirit will live on in every struggle for ecological justice and in every living being that continues to thrive on Earth thanks to her work. Thank you, Jane, for showing us how to defend Nature with courage, wisdom & compassion 🌿🐒

She actively supported efforts to recognize ecosystems as subjects of rights, including signing letters in defense of the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador, whose landmark legal victory became a milestone in Rights of Nature jurisprudence.

Jane was a dear ally of the Rights of Nature cause: Throughout her life, she used her powerful voice to speak out against the destruction of life and to help pave the way toward a new paradigm of respect and reciprocity.

With deep sorrow, GARN mourns the passing of Jane Goodall, one of the greatest defenders of life on our planet 🍃

🐒 Her tireless commitment to animals, ecosystems, and a more just and harmonious world with Nature has been a profound inspiration to our movement.

The Colorado River is this tribe’s ‘lifeblood,’ now they want to give it the same legal rights as a person

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In case you missed it 🌿 GARN's Indigenous Council gathered at the People's Forum during Climate Week on the autumn equinox—a moment of balance—to emphasize that defending Indigenous rights and Rights of Nature are inseparable struggles that form the foundation of peace: