...rights of nature law passed in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, which was the first time rights of nature were recognized in any western legal system. “Tamaqua didn’t…
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Counter Punch: CELDF and the Rights of Nature
...larger national and international movements. How Ecuador is Setting an Example for Upholding the Rights of Nature “Rights of Nature is about balancing what is…
Press Release: Toledo Residents Experiment With Civilian Rights of Nature Enforcement
Toledo, Ohio residents give oral arguments in Lake Erie Bill of Rights pro se lawsuit to advances one avenue for participatory Rights of Nature enforcement....
CELDF Response to “Can granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature stem biodiversity loss?” by Viktoria Kahui
...resistance to changing anything. Rights of nature encompasses human rights because humans are part of nature. Narrowing the scope of those rights to protect the…
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...the Oregon Community Rights Network and Washington Community Rights Network. He teaches, presents, and writes extensively on movement building, community rights, rights of nature, and…
Press Release: Gas Company Files Federal Lawsuit To Overturn Small Pennsylvania Township’s Rights of Nature Law…Again
CELDF partner in Rights of Nature work, Fundacion Pachamama, Shut Down by Ecuadorian Government
Oxford Human Rights Hub: RightsUp #RightNow – When Human Rights Are Not Enough: Defending the Rights of Nature
Human rights to a healthy environment are gaining recognition - and today, the rights of nature are growing as well. Here, CELDF's Mari Margil speaks…
Lake Erie Advocates’ Media Statement: Ohio Legislature Attacks Rights of Nature, Protects Polluters in Budget Bill
Community groups release joint statement revealing not only the Ohio legislature's efforts to stop Rights of Nature, but also expanding protections of industrial agricultural operations....
Wouldn’t You Say? – From Rights of Nature to Right Relationship
...and institutionalize legal rights, unless they are rights attached to property, wealth, and their accumulation. We are right to advocate for and institute legal rights…
CELDF Publication – State of Rights of Nature Report
...CELDF’s leading role in advancing rights of nature Rights of nature principles Key rights of nature events over the years + in 2025 Breakdown of…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Saving the Economy Means Not Saving Nature
...of capital are suddenly willing to publicly embrace Nature’s rights as a slogan and simultaneously invent clever ways to rebrand it, to make Rights of…
WGRZ.com: Nature’s Law: The Rights of Nature to Exist
CELDF is working with communities across the U.S. and around the world to advance the Rights of Nature - and the movement is growing....
Press Release: White Earth Band Enacts First-of-its-Kind Rights of Nature Law
CELDF assisted Honor the Earth to develop the first Rights of Nature law to protect a plant species, which was adopted by the White Earth…
State of Rights of Nature 2026 Report
...legislation banning rights of nature, and more and more efforts using “rights of nature” language doesn’t achieve the fundamental goal of the movement: expanding legal…
Earth Emancipation Now!
...recognizing unalienable rights for nature challenge and defeat the juggernaut of rights attached to property and transferred to serial owners? The answer is in the…
Press Release: Multi-Prong Attack by State of Ohio Against Rights of Nature
Ohio Attorney General files complaint to overturn Lake Erie Bill of Rights on behalf of industry, arguing there is a right to pollute....
Press Release: International Rights of Nature Solidarity
...of Planet’s Rights collective, who have drafted a European Declaration of Planet’s rights, submitted to the European Commission. Nature Rights, an NGO advocating for the…
Pachamama Hosts Global Alliance for Rights of Nature in San Francisco
The Rights of Nature, The Case for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. Co-produced by Global Exchange, the Council of Canadians, The…
BOOK FOREWORD: Empowering Municipal Sustainability
...rights pertaining to People, communities and Nature are subordinate to rights attached to property ownership and conveyed to the owner through that property. Since all…
United Nations Radio: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature promotes its cause at Rio+20
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is....calling for global recognition and acceptance of Rights of Nature. They say an essential step for achieving…
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