Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)

🌊 🇪🇨 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.

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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

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🎬🌍 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.

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🐸 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.

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Could Rights of Nature save Britain's disappearing wildlife ? Time: 18:30 – 21:30 (BST) Location: Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA Register Across the UK, efforts to reverse declining biodiversity continue to fall short. This reality has prompted some campaigners to call for the adoption of a Rights of Nature approach. Such a shift would fundamentally change how we protect wildlife by recognising natural entities. A river could be granted the right to flow free of pollution, or a forest the right to naturally regenerate. Comparable approaches already exist elsewhere. Ecuador’s 2008 constitution recognises the Rights of Nature, and in Aotearoa New Zealand the Whanganui River was granted legal personhood in 2017. What could this approach mean in a country as nature depleted and heavily shaped by human activity as the UK? What role should ecology and ecological science play within this movement? And might strengthening and enforcing existing laws for priority habitats and protected species deliver more immediate benefits? This event will bring people together to explore these questions through an interactive panel discussion followed by a drinks reception. Agenda 18:30-19:00: Registration and welcome drink 19:00-20:30: Panel debate 20:30-21:30: Drinks reception Our panel Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford Yadvinder Malhi CBE FRS is a...

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. 

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💧 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. 

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Ecuador: expertos alertan que la propuesta de reforma minera de Noboa afectaría derechos indígenas y protección ambiental Comunidades indígenas y ambientalistas están en alerta por la reforma minera que presentó el presidente Daniel Noboa.

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”

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“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. 

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🌱✨ 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!

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🌊✨ “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

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🌿✨ 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:
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📢 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

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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.
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✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: https://f.mtr.cool/jkisoghshg

El río Manzanares reclama obtener personalidad jurídica inspirado por la ley pionera del Mar Menor

El río madrileño busca lograr derechos y obligaciones propios, fluir en libertad y una protección total ante la crisis climática: https://f.mtr.cool/qbsadlimor

🇨🇭 The Reuss Initiative submitted 5,460 certified signatures in Lucerne, Switzerland, launching a constitutional process to recognize the River Reuss and other public waters as rights-bearing entities 🌊⚖️

Next: review by the cantonal council, parliamentary debate, and ultimately a public vote. 🗳️

With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property: https://f.mtr.cool/iemqibcnma

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