Kebaowek First Nation is defending the Kichi Sibi from a proposed nuclear waste dump by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, arguing for their right to free, prior & informed consent under #UNDRIP. Water is life. Protect the river that protects us all. 💧
🔗 raventrust.com/campaigns/ke... #FPIC #Indigenous

Amid mining & ag pressure in Papua, youth rise to defend Indigenous forests, blending ancestral wisdom with tech to map & protect their lands. Recognition lags despite legislation. #Papua #IndigenousRights #Forests #ClimateJustice
🔗 bit.ly/UGMforestnews

#NatureRights #IndigenousRights

Native American Teens Kayak Major US River to Celebrate Removal of Dams and Return of Salmon | The Klamath River is newly navigable after a decades-long fight to remove its 4 dams to restore the salmon run—an ancient source of life, food & culture for local tribes for millennia.
READ: bit.ly/3UbYWuj

Illegal loggers profit from Brazil’s carbon credit projects How a system designed to protect the world’s biggest rainforest is funding businesses with a track record of illegal deforestation.

Illegal loggers are cashing in on Brazil’s carbon credit boom—many projects are run by those fined for deforestation, duping the system and greenwashing with global registries and buyers like Boeing & Telefónica: www.reuters.com/business/env...
#Amazon #forestcarbon #Indigenousrights #naturerights

Recognition and Erasure of Indigenous Oceanic Rights and Title Canada continues to treat the ocean as void of Indigenous presence or rights, using the fiction of "mare nullius" to justify offshore development without needed Indigenous consent. In this Brief, Mich...

Canada conveniently treats the ocean as empty—“mare nullius”—ignoring Indigenous rights to justify offshore development without consent.
This legal fiction erases oceanic title, presence & stewardship.
New Brief from Yellowhead: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/07/15/r...
#OceanJustice #IndigenousRights

Old-growth forests deserve legal personhood!

Trump upends historic Columbia River Basin agreement, bringing uncertainty to salmon recovery efforts President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

Trump abandoned the Columbia Basin Agreement—undermining #salmon recovery and breaking treaty promises with Northwest tribes. This policy reversal is a betrayal of sovereign #IndigenousRights and decades of hard-won progress. www.opb.org/article/2025...
#TreatyRights #ColumbiaRiver #NatureRights

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.

@ the U.N.OceanConference, Tonga’s princess proposed giving whales legal personhood—rights to life, migration, habitat & cultural protection—represented by human guardians. A powerful shift, rooted in Indigenous wisdom & ocean justice: insideclimatenews.org/news/1006202... #NatureRights #WhaleRights

The global #RightsofNature movement is transforming law & culture—urging us to treat rivers, forests & ecosystems as living entities, not resources.
Time to rethink humanity’s place and reframe our legal and economic systems.
#EarthLaw www.eurasiareview.com/30052025-how...

California's Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them

After 120+ years, California’s Yurok Tribe has regained ~47K acres (73 sq miles) of ancestral land along the #Klamath —now a sacred salmon and community forest. A powerful example of Indigenous stewardship and Land Back in action.
#LandBack #IndigenousStewards #Yurok abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Northwest tribes say Trump’s proposed salmon budget cuts violate treaty rights The White House’s proposed 2026 budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would eliminate the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, the leading source of money for restoring the N...

Northwest tribes warn that Trump’s 2026 budget proposal would slash the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund—violating treaty rights and jeopardizing salmon runs, jobs, ecosystems, and communities. www.opb.org/article/2025...
#TreatyRights #Salmon #NatureRights #IndigenousRights

Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to illicit logging. Now, community members face intimidation and risk arrest as they patrol their forests to...

In Cambodia’s Preah Roka and Prey Lang forests, Indigenous communities risk their safety to protect their ancestral lands from illegal logging. Despite their efforts, these defenders face intimidation and threats. Read more: e360.yale.edu/features/pre... #NatureRights #IndigenousRights #Cambodia

Could a river sue a corporation? Robert Macfarlane’s books change the world – now he’s advocating for the world’s waterways The revered nature writer asks ambitious questions in his latest work, written at a tipping point for the world’s climate.

Could a river sue a corporation?
Robert Macfarlane explores the global rise of legal rights for rivers—rooted in Indigenous knowledge and resistance to extraction.
What if we saw rivers as beings, not resources?
Read more: theconversation.com/could-a-rive...
#RightsOfNature #RiverRights

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear the case to protect Oak Flat—clearing the way for a copper mine on sacred Apache land. A two-mile crater will erase a forest site of deep spiritual importance.
This isn’t progress. It’s erasure.
Read more: wapo.st/3yxjbZb
#OakFlat #IndigenousRights #NatureRights

Ancient forests in BC are still being destroyed. Despite promises, BC Timber Sales auctions old growth to loggers like West Fraser & Tolko near Spring Lake, Hilda Creek & Trio Creek. Stand.earth’s #ForestEye #OldGrowth #BCForests https://act.stand.earth/page/email/message/view?broadcastId=395404

81% of critical #habitat for at-risk species in B.C. remains unprotected, despite federal standards. The province permits industrial #logging in these areas, undermining conservation efforts. Without enforceable protections, #biodiversity continues to decline:
thenarwhal.ca/bc-endangere...

Carbon market integrity demands recognition of High Forest, Low Deforestation (HFLD) areas. This piece makes a compelling case for integrating Indigenous-led HFLD stewardship into ICVCM-aligned crediting frameworks—addressing leakage, permanence & equity gaps. No #HFLD = no integrity.
🔗 mongabay.com

Indigenous delegates at the UN raise alarm on voluntary isolated peoples Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments in South America.

At the UN, Indigenous delegates sound the alarm: isolated Indigenous Peoples face extinction—yet their rights are ignored. These communities are vital stewards of Earth’s last wild places. Protecting them protects us all.
Read more: grist.org/global-indig...
#IndigenousRights #NatureStewards #UNPFII

In Bolivia, a ‘conservation mosaic’ gets another (big) piece In the remote lowland forests of northwestern Bolivia, a small community has taken a big step to protect one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions.

#Indigenous leadership in action: Bolivia’s Sena municipality just added 1.1M acres to a 25M-acre #Amazon #conservation mosaic. Protecting #forests, #biodiversity & livelihoods—by and for local communities. www.conservation.org/blog/in-boli... #IndigenousStewardship #NatureRights #Bolivia

Business failure to act on deforestation puts everyone at risk Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats for a wealth of biodiversity, home to 300 million people and support the livelihoods of over a billion people. Yet forests, and the benefits they bring, are threatened by companies and the banks that finance them.

New Forest 500 data reveals only 16 of 500 high-risk companies have credible deforestation-free supply chain plans. The rest lag behind, risking #climate, #biodiversity, and #humanrights. Corporate inaction is no longer tenable. Details: www.reuters.com/sustainabili....
#NatureRights #Forest #ESG

YouTube video by APTN News Manitoba to save Lemay Forest from property development after protests | APTN News

After more than a year of protests by environmental and Indigenous advocates, the Manitoba government announced its plans to save a forest from property development.

The Lemay Forest is located in a historic area known for the Red River Métis settlements.

At the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal, nine judges ruled against Canadian mining companies for violating collective rights, Indigenous rights, and the rights of nature. This decision is a validation of the growing global movement to recognize the Earth as a living entity with rights.

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations - Inside Climate News Indigenous women from across the world discuss their struggles against the pollution of their ancestral lands and the displacement of their communities.

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations insideclimatenews.org/news/2504202...
#LandRights

First Nation asks court to halt infamous B.C. mining site expansion | The Narwhal Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.

Xatśūll First Nation has filed for an injunction against Imperial Metals as well as a judicial review of BC's decision to allow the company to raise the #MountPolley mine tailings dam without the nation's consent or an environmental assessment. #BCMining #EnvironmentalJustice

A large tree reaches towards the sky, its trunk coveted in patches of green moss. Blue sky glows above the canopy.

"We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

— Native American Proverb

#earth #children #trees #moss #iseemoss #forest #ancestors #stunday #westcoast #rainforest

Court rejects logging company's claim to conservation-related losses | The Narwhal Forestry giant Teal sued for $75 million in compensation after old-growth trees on Haida Gwaii were protected, and lost — a victory for Indigenous Rights and law

#BC Supreme Court rejects Teal-Jones’ $75M claim over #OldGrowth protections on #HaidaGwaii. A win for #IndigenousRights, #NatureRights, sustainable forestry, and Haida-led stewardship.
#ForestryJustice

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YouTube video by Boundary Forest Watershed Stewardship Society A Case Study in the Problems of Professional Reliance in BC Forestry: Elphinstone Forest Campaign

“Professional reliance” lets BC’s forestry industry regulate itself—with devastating impacts. Clearcuts, floods, #biodiversity loss… and #communities left to pay the price. Time for accountability. Watch & share: youtu.be/PcJmmiNKaiQ
boundaryforest.org/problem-solu...
#NatureRights 🌲 #BCForests

Trump administration opens up over half of national forests for logging It appears the Trump administration has targeted areas for harvesting in every National Forest in Washington state.

Every single national forest in Washington....🤬

www.fox13seattle.com/news/trump-l...