Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
Global hub for connecting and fostering relationships, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to advance the Rights of Nature. More information: www.garn.org
- 🌿✨ Mpatheleni Makaulule of the VhaVenda nation (South Africa) speaks with Ashish Kothari about the threats her community faces and the vital role women are playing in restoring dignity, traditional governance, and the rights of their people and Nature.
- On a new episode of Your Call’s One Planet, the spotlight is on the Rights of Nature movement, featuring @katiesurma.bsky.social from @insideclimatenews.org: f.mtr.cool/otwahliusc
- 📢 Call for Papers V Congreso Internacional sobre los Derechos de la Naturaleza en el Mediterráneo: f.mtr.cool/aazvmcyouj
- Swiss lawyer Michael Bütler has spent his career defending mountains and glaciers he sees disappearing outside his window, and argues that the law can, and must, step in to protect them: f.mtr.cool/mscigcguyo
- GARN Outstanding Member of the Month: the Reuss Initiative 🇨🇭 5,460 signatures launched a constitutional process to recognize rivers as rights-bearing entities in Lucerne. 👉 More information: f.mtr.cool/alwciqwbzp ✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: f.mtr.cool/jkisoghshg
- El río Manzanares reclama obtener personalidad jurídica inspirado por la ley pionera del Mar Menor El río madrileño busca lograr derechos y obligaciones propios, fluir en libertad y una protección total ante la crisis climática: f.mtr.cool/qbsadlimor
- 🇨🇭 The Reuss Initiative submitted 5,460 certified signatures in Lucerne, Switzerland, launching a constitutional process to recognize the River Reuss and other public waters as rights-bearing entities 🌊⚖️ Next: review by the cantonal council, parliamentary debate, and ultimately a public vote. 🗳️
- With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property: f.mtr.cool/iemqibcnma
- Reposted by Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)Should the River Wye have legal rights? Giving the natural world enforceable rights in law, known as rights of nature, is not fanciful. Those rights can have practical application westenglandbylines.co.uk/region/heref...
- What happens when the law finally begins to reflect the truth that Nature is not an object, but a living entity with rights? Read more: f.mtr.cool/bndsoqceqa
- 🌳🎥📖 Watch now: The Forest Fights Back Book Launch with Author Jessica den Outer, Natalia Greene (GARN), Tosana Toben (GARN Youth Hub), Janny Figueroa (We Kimün), and Mika Peck (Ecoforensic). English: f.mtr.cool/ouacbopapo Español: f.mtr.cool/zpvqcshomq
- 💧🌿 The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and persistence made it happen: f.mtr.cool/rrcshyryqh
- Historic first: Stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon have become the first insects in the world to be legally recognized as having the right to exist and thrive. Read more: f.mtr.cool/blkkmbghfg
- 💧🌿 Cherokee Tribal Council in the U.S. unanimously approved a youth-led, first all-female Rights of Nature resolution, recognizing legal rights for Long Person waterways, the first east of the Mississippi River: garn.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/NAIWA-Daughters-Resolution-Press-Release.pdf
- 🌧️🌿 La Amazonía está perdiendo capacidad para generar su propia lluvia, mientras tribunales del continente avanzan por los Derechos de la Naturaleza: f.mtr.cool/jmopxtevxd
- Local councils in England are beginning to recognize that rivers have rights, like the right to flow, the right to be free from pollution, and the right to thrive: f.mtr.cool/ukeeixklzj
- 🌿🇪🇨 La Constitución de Montecristi de Ecuador, la primera en el mundo en consagrar los Derechos de la Naturaleza, fue ratificada por la ciudadanía, reforzando la protección de los ecosistemas en un momento decisivo.
- A court invoked Ecuador’s Rights of Nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the gov to prove construction won’t drive species to extinction: f.mtr.cool/serdhhptoj
- 🌿 Powerful new piece from GARN Advisory Board Member Maude Barlow: “The Rights of Nature, An Idea Whose Time Has Come.” Read the full article and learn more about Maude’s work and upcoming book Earth For Sale: f.mtr.cool/cdervmgxzn
- What if rivers had rights? 💧 Writer and environmental humanities scholar @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social explores the radical and fast-growing idea of the Rights of Nature: f.mtr.cool/zmjbhukdxa
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- How do the Rights of Nature work in practice, and what threatens them? Los Cedros Cloud Forest in Ecuador went from decades of anti-mining resistance to the landmark 2021 Constitutional Court ruling that halted mining for violating Rights of Nature ⬇️ sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/good-living
- 🌄✨ Pyramid Mountain in Colorado, U.S., has become the first mountain in the country to own itself. More information: f.mtr.cool/eslicpldgl
- GARN is opening internships 🌍 Communications · Design & Web · Rights of Nature Tribunal · Organizing Remote, 2–6 months, open worldwide / in person in Quito (self-funded) Join the global movement defending the Rights of Nature. Apply before the end of the month → garn.org/internships
- 🐸🇪🇨 #RightsofNature news: A tiny frog, just a few centimeters long, stopped an entire road in Ecuador. A court halted a road project in Angamarca to protect the Jambato harlequin frog under the Rights of Nature. More information: garn.org/rights-of-nature-timeline/auto-de-calificacion
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- 🌿🇨🇴 During #COP30, Colombia became the first country to declare its entire Amazon biome a zone free of large-scale mining and hydrocarbons. Colombia also enacted Ley 2533 de 2025, establishing the Río Aburrá, its basin, and tributaries as a rights-bearing entity.
- ✨🌍 As we step into 2026, one truth is clear: Mother Earth is calling us to deepen our commitment. 🌱💧 Will protecting Mother Earth be one of your 2026 resolutions? garn.org/donate Wishing you a grounded, hopeful, and courageous 2026 💫🌎
- We are Nature protecting itself... For 15 years, GARN has helped transform a dream into a global movement for the Rights of Nature. Today, we celebrate that journey, and the future we are building together. 🎬 Watch our 15th anniversary film: f.mtr.cool/sklhgyliwi
- 🌎✨ On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a historic Rights of Nature Legislative Package was introduced in Wisconsin, U.S. Read more: f.mtr.cool/uuiwyrnznf
- 🎄🌍 This Christmas, we choose to celebrate differently. In a world of excess, let your gift be to Mother Earth: living forests, flowing rivers, and real trees rooted in the Earth, not consumption 💚 Give in reciprocity. Support the Rights of Nature: garn.org/donate 🌱
- 📚🌊 Big news for rivers worldwide! “Is a River Alive?” by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is topping year-end best-of lists, making major bestseller lists, including The New York Times, and being nominated for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
- 💚💧 The Animas River in Durango, Colorado, U.S., has been enshrined as a living, rights-bearing entity under a new local resolution driven by an extraordinary group of Fort Lewis College students: f.mtr.cool/dkuajtdeph
- 🌍 2025 marked a turning point for the Rights of Nature: ⚖️ Historic IACtHR advisory opinion 🌊 Rivers, lakes & ecosystems recognized as legal subjects 🌱 Indigenous-led victories 🔥 Powerful #RightsofNatureTribunal rulings 👉 Full 2025 recap: garn.org/rights-of-nature-2025-in-review
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- 🍃 Gaia is crying out, and yet, as Ailton Krenak, judge of the @rontribunal.bsky.social , reminds us: she is ancient, alive, and still teaching us how to return to balance, and movements like Rights of Nature offer a way out of an extractivist economy that is collapsing the living world.
- All’incrocio dei negoziati della COP30, l’Ecuador manda un segnale decisivo: il 16 novembre, gli ecuadoriani hanno votato NO al referendum costituzionale che minacciava di eliminare i Diritti della Natura: f.mtr.cool/ubeyqubpgh
- 🎧💚 After ten episodes, Conversations with Mother Nature concludes with a powerful story from London. @paulpowlesland.bsky.social took it upon himself to protect a river no one asked him to, reminding us that love, not ownership, is where guardianship begins: garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
- 💧 Historic news from #COP30: Lake Rice (Pimadashkodeyong), the ancestral lake of the Alderville First Nation in Ontario, now has its own legal standing under Alderville law ➕ More information: f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
- 💦 “El río Machángara está gritando de dolor.” En el lanzamiento virtual del libro 'Is A River Alive?', de @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social , el jurista ecuatoriano Ramiro Ávila compartió su testimonio sobre la realidad del río Machángara. 💧 Mira su intervención completa: youtu.be/e7j1-H2UT9U
- What began as a search for medicinal honey became a historic moment: the world’s first legal rights for an insect. Stingless bees are now recognized as rights-bearing beings. Add your voice:
- 🎧 Final Conversations with Mother Nature podcast episode! Meet @paulpowlesland.bsky.social : barrister, tree defender, and founder of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social . He’s helping rewrite the UK’s relationship with the living world. Listen now: garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
- 🇵🇪💧 Lake Titicaca in Peru has been officially recognized as a subject of rights, thanks to the tireless fight of the alliance of women in defense of the Lake. More information: f.mtr.cool/egbgdimmbf
- 💧 “We have forgotten how to connect with rivers.” During our 'Is A River Alive?' virtual book launch, its author @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social shared a powerful reflection on the crisis facing rivers in the UK and around the world. 🎥 Watch the full conversation: f.mtr.cool/leccexltws
- Our GARN Outstanding Member of the Month fights for the rights of Antarctica: It's Roberta Bosu! 🗻 garn.org/roberta-bosu ✨ Nominate yourself, someone else, or an organization you admire by joining GARN for free: garn.org/get-involved & receive link in your inbox.
- 💧 The season finale of the Conversations with Mother Nature podcast is here 🌱 Meet barrister and river guardian @paulpowlesland.bsky.social , founder of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social as he shares how the Rights of Nature movement is taking root in the UK 🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
- 🌍✨ The final versions of the Rights of Nature and ecocide motions adopted at the IUCN World Conservation Congress are now available! 📄 garn.org/iucn-2025
- 🌎 #COP30 Recap At COP30 in Belém, GARN & our allies brought Nature's voice directly into negotiation spaces, mobilizing our global network and Indigenous leadership to demand real solutions to climate collapse. 🔗 Explore full recap at garn.org/cop30-brazil #RightsofNature #ClimateJustice
- Interesting interview about the rights of rivers in Germany:
