Rights of Nature: A Reading List 📖
These articles interrogate RoN’s potential to transform our legal, political, and cultural relationship with the rest of Nature. Read now! https://f.mtr.cool/nuddzanxab
“Rights of Nature will be to the 21st century what human rights were to the 20th.” - Paul Powlesland explores how recognizing RoN could reshape planning, architecture, and development, creating places people actually want to live in: https://f.mtr.cool/ebcfflcbql
🇵🇭 A Rights of Nature Bill has been filed in the Philippine Congress... and YOU can sign for it to pass! 🫵
✍️ Sign now: https://f.mtr.cool/awmyadbhup
⚖️🌿👊🤯💥 Ecuador's Constitutional Court strengthens the Rights of Nature, while its National Assembly passes a Mining Law that removes safeguards and accelerates extraction. Ecocentric Constitution — or extractive model?
🌊 🇪🇨 The Portoviejo River in Ecuador now has rights! A court recognized the river as a subject of rights and ordered ecological restoration, community reparations & the creation of Guardians of the Portoviejo River.
📄 Ruling: https://f.mtr.cool/csgkfvbodk
Patricia Gualinga, Kichwa leader from Sarayaku (Ecuador), speaks about Indigenous self-determination, collective rights, and the defense of life through ancestral knowledge and living cultures:
Científicos internacionales impulsan protección de los Derechos de la Naturaleza en Puerto Rico y el Caribe, como ya ocurrió en 40 países: https://f.mtr.cool/wwumlrwuft
🎬🌍 ATHARAKA: Created by Kenyan SALT and the Gaia Foundation, Atharaka follows Tharaka clans as they revive the ecological and cultural richness of their ancestral lands, where Nature and culture are inseparable, generation after generation.
🎥 Watch now:
🐸 Stopping a highway is not anti-development… but driving a species to extinction is.
A judge in Cotopaxi, Ecuador has ordered the suspension of a road expansion to protect the nearly extinct Jambato harlequin frog, invoking the Rights of Nature 🥺🌿✅
🐸 Frenar una carretera no es estar contra el desarrollo... pero extinguir una especie sí lo es. Una jueza en Cotopaxi, Ecuador ordenó suspender la ampliación de una carretera para proteger al casi extinto sapo arlequín jambato, en nombre de los Derechos de la Naturaleza 🥺🌿✅
Reconocer los derechos de la Naturaleza no desplaza los derechos humanos, los completa, recordándonos que no hay justicia, futuro ni humanidad posible sin el cuidado de los sistemas vivos que sostienen la vida.
https://f.mtr.cool/rfqqlgcdco
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Could Rights of Nature save Britain's disappearing wildlife ?
->British Ecological Society | More on "Rights of nature for wildlife" at BigEarthData.ai | #Nature #Wildlife
Shame on Brighton & Hove Labour for gutting the Rights of Nature motion by Greens/Independents and blocking the council’s backing of the UK Nature’s Rights Bill. Our city’s downland & sea deserve legal rights. 🌿🌊 #RightsofNature #brightonandhove #natureprotection
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From swimming polluted rivers to advocating for a constitutional amendment, Christopher Swain’s journey shows how storytelling, courage, and deep relationships with water can drive systemic change.
https://f.mtr.cool/kbpwbtwjyg
💧 The Colorado River Indian Tribes have recognized the Colorado River as a legal person, affirming what their communities have always known: that the river is alive and has rights of its own.
https://f.mtr.cool/eiuajkavad
Ecuador: El presidente Noboa envió una ley urgente para fortalecer los sectores minero y energético. Expertos advierten que facilita la explotación minera sin priorizar Derechos de la Naturaleza.
El proyecto que está luchando por decolonizar la visión sobre la Naturaleza en Uganda: “Necesitamos ser reconocidos y respetados”
https://f.mtr.cool/tmfmeiloyu
“Only humans would have the audacity to assign ‘financial value’, in their colonial thought process ways, to the Sources of Life and the living beings that are our relatives,” says Casey Camp-Horinek.
https://f.mtr.cool/tbhbeypyun
🌱✨ In this inspiring conversation from Belém, Quetza Ramirez, an Indigenous youth from Turtle Island with Aztec heritage and @garnyouthhub.bsky.social , reflects on the journey of reconnecting with ancestral identity while building new paths for youth:
"The Canadian gov can support Ecuadorian communities by not signing the Free Trade Agreement, not accepting destructive metal mining, and conducting a thorough investigation into companies that violating the rights of nature and human rights.”
To Dundee Precious Metals: Hands off Kimsacocha!
🌊✨ “We are the river, and the river is us.”
Ned Tapa shares the long struggle of the Māori people of Aotearoa to have the Whanganui River recognized as a rights-bearing entity spanning more than a century:
🌊⚖️ The River Wye in the UK is fighting for its legal rights! Nearly 4,000 people are suing companies accused of polluting the river.
📖 Read the article: https://f.mtr.cool/wtkbspmpco
🌿✨ Mpatheleni Makaulule of the VhaVenda nation (South Africa) speaks with Ashish Kothari about the threats her community faces and the vital role women are playing in restoring dignity, traditional governance, and the rights of their people and Nature.
On a new episode of Your Call’s One Planet, the spotlight is on the Rights of Nature movement, featuring @katiesurma.bsky.social from @insideclimatenews.org:
https://f.mtr.cool/otwahliusc
📢 Call for Papers V Congreso Internacional sobre los Derechos de la Naturaleza en el Mediterráneo: https://f.mtr.cool/aazvmcyouj
Swiss lawyer Michael Bütler has spent his career defending mountains and glaciers he sees disappearing outside his window, and argues that the law can, and must, step in to protect them: https://f.mtr.cool/mscigcguyo
Let's keep fighting!
GARN Outstanding Member of the Month: the Reuss Initiative 🇨🇭 5,460 signatures launched a constitutional process to recognize rivers as rights-bearing entities in Lucerne.
👉 More information: https://f.mtr.cool/alwciqwbzp
✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: https://f.mtr.cool/jkisoghshg
