This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 74 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International Center for the [...]
This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in Louisiana, New Orleans. This 49 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International Center for the Rights [...]
This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 45 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International [...]
Drilling Mora County was posted August 21st, 2017 on Vimeo.com. This 54 minute documentary can be viewed HERE. The film covers the Mora County fracking ban with interviews with attorneys, activists, and elected officials involved with the ordinance banning hydrocarbon extraction in Mora County, New Mexico. Attorneys like Jeffery Haas, elected officials like John Olivas and activists like Kathleen Dudley [...]
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from September 21, 2017. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is serving as a legal adviser for the first-in-the-nation lawsuit in which a river is seeking recognition of its legal rights. MORE...
In New Zealand and Ecuador, rivers with legal aspects of “personhood” open up new environmental battles This article by Mihnea Tanasescu appeared in Scientific American , June 19, 2017. In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. Today, New Zealand’s Whanganui [...]
The Court Finds the Atrato Possesses Rights to “Protection, Conservation, Maintenance and Restoration” Rights of Nature Movement Gaining Ground as Court Declares Need to Move Away from Legal Systems in which Humans are the “dominator of nature” A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from May 4, 2017. MERCERSBURG, PA, USA: In November, [...]
This article appeared in El Heraldo on May 3, 2017 In Colombia, it is the first time that rights are granted to a river, to resources as such, beyond people and communities. As a historical landmark, Ximena González described the ruling of the Constitutional Court that declared for the first time that a river “is [...]
This article by Ashish Kothari, Mari Margil, and Shrishtee Bajpai originally appeared in, The Guardian on April 21, 2017 Several geographically-distant but related events signalled a dramatic mind shift in humanity’s troubled relationship with nature last month. First, the New Zealand parliament passed the Te Awa Tupua Act, giving the Whanganui River and ecosystem a legal standing in its [...]
This article by Shannon Biggs was published on the Movement Rights website on August 2nd, 2015. They say that Hawaii is Earth’s connecting point to the rest of the Universe. Telescopes—those located on Earth and those in orbit—have allowed us to see deep into the galaxy and to the edges of the universe, sparking our [...]
