Learn more about the Rights of Nature and Community Rights
- Invisible Hand Film
- Rights of Nature Documentary
- The Pope, a prince and a judge walk into a bar…to argue for nature’s rights (commentary)
- Could the Ohio River have rights? A movement to grants rights to the environment tests the power of local control
Learn more about indigenous perspectives and land management
- Kinship Is a Verb
- Speaking of Nature
- Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective
- Relearning from the Ground Up
- Indigenous people are the world’s biggest conservationists, but they rarely get credit for it
- Project Drawdown: Indigenous Peoples’ Forest Tenure
Learn more about organizations supporting Rights of Nature
- Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
- Center for Environmental and Democratic Rights (CEDR)
- Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
Where is Rights of Nature being used?
- Columbus, Ohio
- Grant County, PA
- Toledo, Ohio
- White Earth Band of Ojibwe (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe)
- Florida
- Oregon
- Bangladesh
- Bolivia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- France
- India
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Panama
- Uganda
What happens in my watershed?
- Fracking shale gas
- Radioactive Brine Waste
- Appalachian Storage Hub
- Forever chemicals: PFOA and PFAS
- Agricultural runoff
- Industrial chemical production and discharge
- Coal mining
- Chemical spills and releases
Learn more about chemicals in our waterways and our environment: