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 [...]
This article by Mari Margil appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub, August 13th, 2018. In the United States, the Fourth of July is celebrated as Independence Day. Someday history books may celebrate the Fourth of July 2018 as a new “independence day” – not for a new nation, but for a new kingdom. On that day, [...]
Four rivers around the world now have legal rights. But what are the implications of rights for nature for international environmental law? This short essay by Mara Tignino and Laura E. Turley appeared in The Revelator, August 6th, 2018. Last year, four rivers were granted legal rights: the Whanganui in New Zealand, Rio Atrato in Colombia, and the Ganga and [...]
This article by Tom Henry appeared in The Toledo Blade, August 7th, 2018. A grassroots community group called Toledoans for Safe Water said it has secured more than enough signatures to get a proposal for defending Lake Erie from future pollution threats on the 2018 fall election ballot. The initiative is called the Lake Erie [...]
Watch and read (also below) Charlotte Owen's 3-minute testimony in front of the Columbus City Council HERE. This testimony was given on July 30th, 2018, and was published a day later on YouTube. Columbus City Council Speech By Charlotte Owens 7/30/18 “President Hardin and members of City Council, I am here today to speak in [...]
This brief article appeared in the Brattleboro Reformer, July 30, 2018 Strafford's health officer is running for governor on a platform centered on "the rights of nature." On April 23, Stephen Marx, a former member of the Strafford Select Board, filed as independent, the first person to file his candidacy for the governor's office in [...]
The city's trapping debacle last week has sparked a conversation about the reaches of the city's Climate Bill of Rights This article by Anthony Hahn appeared in the Daily Camera, July 26th, 2018. Last week, as dozens of prairie dogs marked for eradication sat caged for hours in the sweltering afternoon heat, advocates calling on Lafayette [...]
This Avaaz petition was posted July 2nd, 2018. To help broaden support of the Rights of Nature movement please sign and pass on. Thank you from all of us at Community Rights US (CRUS). Dear friends, Nature is being annihilated everywhere - pollution, overfishing, logging, mining. There’s no end to the massacres. But what if nature had [...]
This 42 minute interview with Community Rights attorney and leader Thomas Linzey was posted on WKNY Radio Kingston's website, July 15th, 2018. It can be downloaded and listened to HERE. Brief commentary by Community Rights media team member Curt Hubatch: I listened to this interview while delivering mail in rural northwestern Wisconsin the other day. [...]
"Animals cannot be treated merely as Property” A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from, July 7th, 2018. On July 4, the High Court of Uttarakhand at Naintal in northern India issued a ruling in a case brought to end cruelty of horses used in transport. The court declared that: “Every species has [...]
