Lakeland Currents – The Legal Rights of Nature: Wild Rice Sues the State of Minnesota
This episode aired on PBS on Friday, December 17 at 8pm and video is available HERE. https://lptv.org/lakeland-currents-1509/ See the video HERE.
Tish O’Dell Community Organizer – Portrait of a water guardian
By Suzanne Forcese in WaterToday Ohio on December 9, 2021 I have lived all my life beside Lake Erie, drinking her water. When my mom was pregnant with me she lived in Cleveland and drank Lake Erie water. If you consider that our bodies are 70% water...then I am Lake Erie. I was Lake Erie [...]
Ridgway grants “rights” to its river, joining several Colorado towns in push for new water protections
This article by Michael Booth appeared in The Colorado Sun on Novembeer 17, 2021 The Uncompahgre may have a legal guardian in its future after a town vote, though critics of “rights of nature” resolutions call "personhood for the river" an empty gesture and a paradise for lawsuits from angry property owners. The Ridgway town [...]
Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules
The Guardian, December 2, 2021 Landmark ruling says mining permits issued in Los Cedros protected area breach Ecuador’s constitution Ecuador’s highest court has ruled that plans to mine for copper and gold in a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature. In a landmark ruling, the constitutional court of Ecuador decided [...]
Ireland: Historic Rights of Nature Motion Coming Before County Council
Published by Dongallive November 23, 2021. Donegal County Council could make a little bit of history at its meeting on Monday next when it can become thew first local authority in the republic of Ireland to endorse a call to rethink our relationship with nature. The motion is being submitted by Inishowen councillor, Albert Doherty, [...]
Rights of Nature Victory in Ecuador – Los Cedros Case – Constitutional Court Upholds Rights of Nature–CDER Press Release
Court rules that mining in a protected forest is unconstitutional, violates constitutional rights of nature Published by the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, December 1, 2021 December 1, 2021 Contact: Hugo Echeverría, Attorney, echejur@yahoo.ca Mari Margil, Executive Director, mmargil@centerforenvironmentalrights.org Quito, Ecuador: On December 1, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador issued a landmark ruling in [...]
‘Rights of nature’ tribal case may upend pipeline law
By Niina H. Farah in E&E News on November 18, 2021 A novel claim defending the rights of wild rice against a Minnesota pipeline may pave a new path for tribal lawsuits over U.S. fossil fuel projects. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit from a tribal nation in the United States, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe [...]
What is ecocide? Why a Glasgow river has fewer rights than a €14 company
By Lottie Limb, in EuroNews, November 12, 2021. It’s hard to keep track of the calls for action coming out of Glasgow this week. But there’s no doubt that the most radical are not coming from the official COP26 venue, but the side events springing up around the city. At one event organised by the [...]
Verdicts from 5 European Tribunals for the Rights of Aquatic Ecosystems
Global Allliance for the Rights of Nature European Hub (GARN) announcement: The FULL VERDICTS of all of our 5 Tribunal for the Rights of the #AquaticEcosystems of #Europe cases are now available to download & read.
Unite and Heal radio program features Thomas Linzey
Matt Matern interviews CDER's Thomas Linzey on rights-based laws and democracy on the Unite and Heal America radio program. November 15, 2021 https://audioboom.com/posts/7980527-episode-45-thomas-linzey-attorney