Rights of Nature

Jaguars, Macaws and Tropical Dry Forest Have a Right To Exist, a Colombian Court Is Told

By Katie Surma

To Save the Amazon, What if We Listened to Those Living Within It?

By Katie Surma

How the Drug War and Energy Transition Are Changing Ecuadorians’ Fight For The Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma

A Town Board in Colorado Repeals Rights of Nature Resolutions

By Katie Surma

‘Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship’: A Rights of Nature Epiphany

By Katie Surma

International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment

By Katie Surma

Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun

By Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Aruba Embraces the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma

Landmark Peruvian Court Ruling Says the Marañón River Has Legal Rights To Exist, Flow and Be Free From Pollution

By Katie Surma

Fighting for a Foothold in American Law, the Rights of Nature Movement Finds New Possibilities in a Change of Venue: the Arts

By Katie Surma

Utah Legislature Takes Aim at Rights of Nature Movement

By Katie Surma

Colorado Town Appoints Legal Guardians to Implement the Rights of a Creek and a Watershed

By Katie Surma

Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma

Aruba Considers Enshrining the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Its Constitution

By Katie Surma

Lawsuit Asserting the ‘Rights of Salmon’ Ends in a Settlement That Benefits The Fish

By Katie Surma

The UN Wants the World Court to Address Nations’ Climate Obligations. Here’s What Could Happen Next

By Katie Surma

A ‘Rights of Nature’ Fact-Finding Panel to Investigate Mexico’s Tren Maya Railroad for Possible Environmental Violations

By Katie Surma

Nearly 200 Countries Approve a Biodiversity Accord Enshrining Human Rights and the ‘Rights of Nature’

By Katie Surma