CELDF partners with Australian Earth Laws Alliance to secure Rights of Nature for the Great Barrier Reef
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 16, 2018.
Today, the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) launched its campaign, in partnership with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), to recognize legal rights of the Great Barrier Reef.
AELA is leading this work in Australia. CELDF, with it’s International Center for the Rights of Nature, has been at the forefront of the growing global movement for the rights of nature, working on the world’s first rights of nature laws. Laws and judicial decisions recognizing legal rights of nature are in place today in the United States, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and other countries.
“For decades our laws have been a death sentence for the environment,” says CELDF International Director Mari Margil, explaining the need for fundamental change. “Now, from the Amazon to Australia, the tide is turning.” MORE…