Affording nature the same rights as a person is an emerging legal movement globally that is gathering steam in Australia, says the Federal Greens candidate for Macquarie.
Kingsley Liu said that rights of nature laws are the key to protecting
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Apr 14 2019
The Rights of Nature: Building a New People’s Movement for the Earth
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Guest Blog Post By Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
When Dr. Seuss’s Lorax sees the Truffula trees being destroyed, he declares: “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
No …
Mar 31 2019
Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations and Nature
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The Green Institute - Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations And Nature
https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/publications/rebalancing-rights/
This collection began its life as an exploration of the concept of Rights of Nature. However, in early research and conversations it swiftly became clear that it would be …
Mar 16 2019
There’s a growing push to give nature legal rights, but what would that mean?
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By environment reporter Nick Kilvert
Mother Earth, Gaia, Pachamama, Papatuanuku: different cultures have long used human metaphors to define nature.
But while there's evidence that anthropomorphism can help foster empathy and respect for the environment, there's a movement of people …
Mar 06 2019
Giving legal rights to nature
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Can nature, rivers, mountains or animals, have legal rights - just like people? Legal rights will change the relationship we have with nature and that’s crucial to really protect the environment.
Recorded at the Australian Earth Laws Alliance's "International Symposium: …
Feb 27 2019
Lake Erie Bill of Rights Passes With 61% of the Vote
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In a special municipal election yesterday, citizens in Toledo, Ohio, USA, passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, which establishes that Lake Erie, and the Lake Erie watershed, possesses "the right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve". It further states …
Feb 11 2019
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why
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…Manoomin (“wild rice”) now has legal rights. At the close of 2018, the White Earth band of Ojibwe passed a law formally recognizing the Rights of Manoomin. According to a resolution, these rights were recognized because “it has become necessary
Jan 29 2019
2019 Citizens’ Inquiry into the Health of the Darling River and Menindee Lakes, 19-29 March 2019, Western NSW
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A special hearing of the Australian Peoples’ Tribunal for Community and Nature’s Rights
For full details about the Citizens' Inquiry, please visit the dedicated page on the Australian Peoples' Tribunal for Community and Nature's Rights website.
The Citizens’ …
Jan 28 2019
Rights of Nature arguments help stop a dolphinarium being built in Quito, Ecuador
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Last week, Ecuador’s government said NO to a dolphinarium project that had been proposed for Salinas, a coastal Ecuadorian city. The Ecuadorian Animal Movement (MAN) challenged a Venezuelan corporation proposing to build the dolphinarium and import bottle nosed dolphins, which …
Jan 16 2019
Blue Mountains Greens candidate supports rights of humans and nature
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Human rights lawyer, engineer and businessman Kingsley Liu has been announced as the Greens candidate for the state seat of Blue Mountains.
The Katoomba grandfather said that human rights and the rights of nature are his two great passions. “We …
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