This press release is from the Offices of PUBLIC HERALD STUDIOS Nonprofit Investigative News 606 Center St. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15221 Joshua: 419-202-8503 publicherald.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 22, 2021 CONTACT: Joshua Pribanic (Co-director), joshua@publicherald.org 2021 Gold Telly Awarded to Rights of Nature Documentary INVISIBLE HAND The must-see Rights of Nature documentary INVISIBLE HAND joins [...]
This blogpost by Hugo Iván Echeverría appeared on the Website of Lewis & Clark Law School on the Center for Animal Law Studies page on March 20, 2021. Every now and then, a concept emerges with the power to alter orthodoxies. In the legal world, one such concept is the “rights of nature,” an idea [...]
CELDF is covered in a chapter in this new book! The timely book from The New Press highlights powerful grassroots campaigns and strategies from across the continent. It includes a chapter on CELDF’s efforts to ‘decolonize the law.’ Collecting interviews, journalistic reports, first-person essays, and artwork, editor Audrea Lim touches on a wide range of [...]
CELDF Press Release. On May 28, 2021, CELDF’s Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin joined Rebecca Tsosie (constitutional and Indigenous law scholar of Yaqui descent and regents professor of law at the University of Arizona) and Carol Van Strum (Lincoln County Community Rights) on the nationally syndicated Climate One podcast. They discussed the Rights of Nature movement and the [...]
Demand Immediate Protection for Lake Erie, Including Ban on Factory Farms CELDF Press Release Tish O’Dell Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Ohio Community Organizer CELDF.org tish@celdf.org 440-552-6774 Lawsuit advances avenue for participatory Rights of Nature enforcement. TOLEDO, OH: Last week, Toledo residents who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit to enforce the Lake Erie Bill of [...]
Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribal members who practice their traditional ways have formed a group to stop the proposed Thacker Pass open pit lithium mine. The group is named Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu (the People of Red Mountain). Here is Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu's Statement of Opposition to Lithium Nevada Corp.’s Proposed Thacker Pass [...]
The May 26th event featured activists from around the globe working on Rights of Nature and Rights of Rivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggbd8aUSDz0
Published by Mongabay by Mari Margil on 19 May 2021. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but Pope Francis, Prince Charles, and judges around the world are now supporting the rights of nature. The belief that nature was something to be both feared and conquered provided legitimacy for the enactment of laws [...]
Rights of Nature featured on the Free Speech TV program "Just Solutions" on April 21, 2021. David Pettit with the NRDC discusses how communities in the US are looking at Rights of Nature, a concept which recognizes the legal rights of ecosystems, as a way to enact and enforce environmental protections. https://freespeech.org/stories/rights-of-nature-david-pettit-of-nrdc-on-just-solutions/
"The absurdity of just one earth species deciding the rules about which other species deserve basic rights. Is this that different from white "experts" measuring the skull sizes of people of color to determine their place in society?" ~Paul Cienfuegos, CRUS Founding Director, commenting on the following story UK government proposals to recognize vertebrates as [...]
