Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
@garnglobal
Global hub for connecting and fostering relationships, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to advance the Rights of Nature. More information: www.garn.org
🐋 In New Zealand, the proposed Tohorā Oranga Bill could recognize the rights of whales. But at the same time, weakened protections threaten the last 51 Rice whales in the Gulf of Mexico: https://f.mtr.cool/vvwlglooce
‘Pollute us and we’ll sue you’: The quest to give Europe’s lakes and forests legal rights Read article: https://f.mtr.cool/rvaolusfpf
First British river granted legal rights. Is this a breakthrough in water protection? The River Wye flows through Wales and England and has been recognized as a living ecosystem with inherent rights along its 210-kilometre course: https://f.mtr.cool/yhoroxmedp
Our first-ever official presence at London Climate Action Week 2026, and what a week it was! 🌍 We came to a space where Rights of Nature is still taking root in the UK and Europe & we left with new relationships across the movement here. Full recap: garn.org/london-climate-action-week-2026
The idea that Nature has rights is slowly unfolding within progressive legal circles like a Namaqua daisy in the first light of spring. At its root is extraordinary thinker Thomas Berry: https://f.mtr.cool/qwpfjjxpkh
🐋🇲🇽 En México, el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo inauguró la exposición Desde el umbral, que cuestiona la ruptura entre humanidad y Naturaleza: https://f.mtr.cool/vjbemolbvk
🔥🌎 In new research, @garnyouthhub.bsky.social Facilitator Tosana Töben examines the 2024 wildfires in Bolivia's Monte Verde Indigenous Territory through a more-than-human political ecology lens: https://f.mtr.cool/tlagbkyand
Lo demandan, lo defienden y lo representan - En Nueva Zelanda, un río se convirtió en un símbolo cuando sus derechos fueron reconocidos: https://f.mtr.cool/lxgwtiwfho
🌳 Rights of Nature in The New York Times: Who Speaks for the Trees? A Tiny Quebec Town. Terrasse-Vaudreuil has adopted a resolution to protect trees as living beings. Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/lardvcwzjn
💧🇪🇸 El Mar Menor como víctima: En el primer juicio con un ecosistema, representantes de la laguna piden medio millón de euros de indemnización a dos empresas agrícolas. https://f.mtr.cool/xsskmgwgmo
🍃 Rights of Nature article in the BBC: Could legal 'personhood' help save Lough Neagh? The former lawyer who secured a Rights of Nature recognition for a Spanish saltwater lagoon believes it could. Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/fylnywxrfj
🇪🇨 Rights of Nature news: An Ecuadorian court has ordered the revocation of 17 mining concessions in the Ortega River basin after ruling that mining activities violated the Rights of Nature. More info: https://f.mtr.cool/etxmcheghz
🌳🇨🇦 Rights of Nature news: First municipality in Canada recognizes trees as living beings with rights On June 9, the municipal council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Quebec, unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing trees' rights to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration.
🌍 Is a new Copernican Revolution already underway? What if the next great shift in human thinking isn't about our place in the universe, but our place within the living world? Read now: https://f.mtr.cool/wzwtqkmvem
Las guerras han perfeccionado su capacidad de contabilizar la muerte. Sin embargo, esta precisión revela siempre un vacío: se oculta sistemáticamente la devastación de la tierra y los ecosistemas. Por Esperanza Martínez. https://f.mtr.cool/adrrgfdbvz
🌳 Join GARN's Asia-Pacific Hub webinar session on July 1 at 11:00 AM (UTC+8) Philippines Time for exploring the Rights of Nature in the Philippines! 🔗 Registration link: https://f.mtr.cool/uzemivzumb
🌿 GARN is proud to recognize Ricardo Frez, Executive Coordinator of NGO Defensa Ambiental in Chile, as this month’s Outstanding Member of the Month. Learn more about his work: garn.org/ricardo-frez ✨ Nominate yourself or an org whose work you admire! Join GARN & get the link: garn.org/get-involved
🍃📄 [New paper] GARN Asia Pacific Hub facilitator Somabha Bandopadhay examines India’s landmark climate judgment and asks: can environmental justice move beyond anthropocentric law toward harmonious coexistence with the living world? https://f.mtr.cool/bptkedfrmw
Human rights and the Rights of Nature: a vital symbiosis for future generations Without these approaches, the current system threatens the habitability of the planet: https://f.mtr.cool/ghwvnrkgsi
Natural habitats have historically been viewed as property to be claimed or owned, but the Rights of Nature movement movement flips this on its head, and posits that ecosystems are fundamentally unownable: https://f.mtr.cool/hcjrywgfks
"The river is me, there's no division in my mind, in my thoughts, in my ways, in my love for the river. It is my duty to take care of her when I have to, because she takes care of me when she has to" - Ned Tapa, Māori elder, about the Whanganui river, at one of our #COP30 Rights of Nature sessions.
🌿🎶 Join us at London Climate Action Week 2026 for A Rights of Nature Night, an evening of music, culture, and resistance led by Indigenous and local voices from the Amazon and beyond. 📍 The Chapel Market Tavern 📅 June 23 | 21:00 🎟️ Register: https://f.mtr.cool/jztfidwaku
🌍🇬🇧 GARN is heading to London Climate Action Week 2026 to bring the Rights of Nature into one of the world’s leading climate spaces! On our Climate Action Week landing page, we will be updating you on all Rights of Nature events happening from June 20-28: bit.ly/lcaw-2026.Join us! ✨
🌎⚖️ “A just transition is not just about replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. It’s about transforming our relationship with Nature.” At the 1st Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Clara Tomé (GARN Youth Hub) brought #RightsofNature into high-level negotiations
🔥 ¡Inscripciones abiertas! XII Foro Social Panamazónico – FOSPA Ecuador 2026 Adoke Öme – Un solo territorio 🌿 🌱 Sin pueblos indígenas no hay justicia climática. Sin territorios libres, no hay democracia. 🚨 Súmate ahora: fospaecuador.com #FOSPA2026
🌊 What can you do for the Ocean this World Oceans Day? Reimagining and building a new connection with the Ocean means moving from appreciation to responsibility and from exploitation to relationship and coexistence. 🌊 Sign the Ocean Rights Declaration and join the movement: oceanrights.com
The Earth has a voice: It speaks through the rivers we defend, the forests we protect, and the communities that stand for life. 🌎 We are the voice of the Earth. 🌿 We are Nature defending herself. #WorldEnvironmentDay #RightsOfNature
💧 The River Guardian: This powerful story follows Paul Powlesland, an environmental barrister turned “river guardian”, whose hands-on restoration of London’s polluted River Roding places him at the forefront of the Rights of Nature movement. https://f.mtr.cool/wkepdghtsw
Indigenous women tour Ecuador oil field as warning against Amazon drilling expansion ⚠️ Through a “toxitour,” they are strengthening resistance against a new wave of oil expansion threatening their lands: https://f.mtr.cool/nssgdmsyto
💧🇮🇹 Proud to recognize Pietro Consolandi as GARN’s Outstanding Member of the Month for his work to advance the Rights of Nature in Europe through art: garn.org/pietro-consolandi Nominate yourself, someone else, or an org you admire. Join GARN & get link to apply 👉 garn.org/get-involved