Recognizing Rights of Great Barrier Reef Could Help Defeat Destructive Coal Mine Project
August 16, 2019
Read more...by Michelle Maloney and Mari Margil
Conventional environmental laws have allowed Adani’s Carmichael coal mine go forward in Australia. It’s time we changed them.
Rights of nature laws are key to protecting Blue Mountains: Greens candidate
May 13, 2019
Affording nature the same rights as a person is an emerging legal movement globally that is gathering steam in Australia, says the Federal Greens candidate for Macquarie.
Kingsley Liu ...Read more...
The Rights of Nature: Building a New People’s Movement for the Earth
April 14, 2019
Read more...Guest Blog Post By Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
When Dr. Seuss’s Lorax sees the Truffula trees being destroyed, he declares: “I speak for the trees. I speak for ...
Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations and Nature
March 31, 2019
This collection began its life as an exploration of the concept of Rights of Nature. However, in early research and conversations it swiftly became clear that it would be worthwhile ...Read more...
There’s a growing push to give nature legal rights, but what would that mean?
March 16, 2019
Read more...Mother Earth, Gaia, Pachamama, Papatuanuku: different cultures have long used human metaphors to define nature.
But while there's evidence that anthropomorphism can help foster empathy and respect for the environment, there's ...
Giving legal rights to nature
March 6, 2019
Can nature, rivers, mountains or animals, have legal rights - just like people? Legal rights will change the relationship we have with nature and that’s crucial to really protect the ...Read more...
Lake Erie Bill of Rights Passes With 61% of the Vote
February 27, 2019
In a special municipal election yesterday, citizens in Toledo, Ohio, USA, passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, which establishes that Lake Erie, and the Lake Erie watershed, possesses "the ...Read more...
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why
February 11, 2019
Read more...Manoomin (“wild rice”) now has legal rights. At the close of 2018, the White Earth band of Ojibwe passed a law formally recognizing the Rights of Manoomin. According to a ...
Rights of Nature arguments help stop a dolphinarium being built in Quito, Ecuador
January 28, 2019
Last week, Ecuador’s government said NO to a dolphinarium project that had been proposed for Salinas, a coastal Ecuadorian city. The Ecuadorian Animal Movement (MAN) challenged a Venezuelan corporation proposing ...Read more...
Blue Mountains Greens candidate supports rights of humans and nature
January 16, 2019
Human rights lawyer, engineer and businessman Kingsley Liu has been announced as the Greens candidate for the state seat of Blue Mountains. The Katoomba grandfather said that human rights and the ...Read more...
Recognizing the rights of nature
January 12, 2019
Toledo, Ohio -- AELA's National Convenor, Dr Michelle Maloney, was invited to write a short piece about the Rights of Nature, for US local publication, the Toledo Blade. Michelle's piece is ...Read more...
Droits de la Nature: Rights of Nature in the Francosphere
September 3, 2018
Nicolas Blain, editor of the French language site for the Rights of Nature, Droits de la Nature, takes up the Rights of the Great Barrier Reef in his August 23rd ...Read more...
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