Category: International News

Apr 16 2020

A positive story in the middle of lockdown:
Plaintiff: Humanity.
Defendant: The whole ecosystem.

Lake Erie Bill of Rights Passes With 61% of the Vote

By earthlaws

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 right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve". It further states …

Feb 11 2019

The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why

By earthlaws

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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Jan 28 2019

Rights of Nature arguments help stop a dolphinarium being built in Quito, Ecuador

By earthlaws

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 12 2019

Recognizing the rights of nature

By earthlaws

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

By earthlaws

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 …

Apr 14 2018

Nature’s Rights Considered at Human Rights Tribunal

By earthlaws

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 …

Oct 13 2017

Launch of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA)

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The Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA) was launched on October 13, 2017 at the University of Siena (Italy) at the Santa Chiara Lab. The ELGA is created as an umbrella organization to the many local, national, and international organizations …