…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 resolution, these rights were recognized because “it has become necessary
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Feb 11 2019
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why
Jan 28 2019
Rights of Nature arguments help stop a dolphinarium being built in Quito, Ecuador
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 to build the dolphinarium and import bottle nosed dolphins, which …
Jan 16 2019
Blue Mountains Greens candidate supports rights of humans and nature
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 rights of nature are his two great passions. “We …
Jan 12 2019
Recognizing the rights of nature
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 in support of Rights of Nature initiatives around the …
Sep 03 2018
Droits de la Nature: Rights of Nature in the Francosphere
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 blog piece.
Read Nicolas' original article, in French, on …
Aug 24 2018
Greens Senator calls for Rights of Nature in Australia
Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi spoke about the Rights of Nature in Australia in her first speech in the Senate on Tuesday 21 August 2018. At 19 minutes and 19 seconds (19:19), she said:
…Nature has intrinsic value, it is not
Aug 22 2018
Rights of the Great Barrier Reef: Interview with Dr Michelle Maloney
Listen to AELA's convenor, Dr Michelle Maloney, interviewed on ABC Drive (North Queensland) with Adam Stephen, discussing the purpose and push for the recognition of the legal rights of the Great Barrier Reef.
Listen to the interview on the ABC …
Apr 22 2018
Contaminated Life: The True Cost and Human Rights Impacts of Unconventional Gas Mining in Australia
Dr Michelle Maloney, AELA’s National Convenor, was invited to write an opinion piece about whether fracking and coal seam gas violates human rights - read her moving piece linked below:
https://www.humansandnature.org/contaminated-life
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Apr 14 2018
Nature’s Rights Considered at Human Rights Tribunal
The Australian Earth Laws Alliance and the Earth Law Alliance are pleased to have prepared the first ever submission about the Rights of Nature, to the International Permanent Peoples Tribunal. The PPT on Fracking is being heard in May, and …
Apr 02 2018
It’s only natural: the push to give rivers, mountains and forests legal rights
The Australian Earth Laws Alliance's National Convenor, Dr Michelle Maloney, is interviewed in this excellent piece on the rights of nature movement in Australia.
Article by Jane Gleeson-White
…The emerging international rights-of-nature movement aims to address the way western legal
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