Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
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Global hub for connecting and fostering relationships, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to advance the Rights of Nature. More information: www.garn.org
📢 Call for Papers V Congreso Internacional sobre los Derechos de la Naturaleza en el Mediterráneo: https://f.mtr.cool/aazvmcyouj
February 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
📢 Call for Papers V Congreso Internacional sobre los Derechos de la Naturaleza en el Mediterráneo: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/mscigcguyo
February 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/alwciqwbzp
✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: https://f.mtr.cool/jkisoghshg
👉 More information: https://f.mtr.cool/alwciqwbzp
✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: https://f.mtr.cool/jkisoghshg
January 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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: https://f.mtr.cool/alwciqwbzp
✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: https://f.mtr.cool/jkisoghshg
👉 More information: https://f.mtr.cool/alwciqwbzp
✨ Become GARN's Outstanding Member of the Month: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/qbsadlimor
El río madrileño busca lograr derechos y obligaciones propios, fluir en libertad y una protección total ante la crisis climática: https://f.mtr.cool/qbsadlimor
January 29, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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: https://f.mtr.cool/qbsadlimor
El río madrileño busca lograr derechos y obligaciones propios, fluir en libertad y una protección total ante la crisis climática: https://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. 🗳️
Next: review by the cantonal council, parliamentary debate, and ultimately a public vote. 🗳️
January 28, 2026 at 12:02 PM
🇨🇭 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. 🗳️
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: https://f.mtr.cool/iemqibcnma
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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: https://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...
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...
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
January 22, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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...
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: https://f.mtr.cool/bndsoqceqa
Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/bndsoqceqa
January 26, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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: https://f.mtr.cool/bndsoqceqa
Read more: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/ouacbopapo
Español: https://f.mtr.cool/zpvqcshomq
English: https://f.mtr.cool/ouacbopapo
Español: https://f.mtr.cool/zpvqcshomq
January 23, 2026 at 12:02 PM
🌳🎥📖 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: https://f.mtr.cool/ouacbopapo
Español: https://f.mtr.cool/zpvqcshomq
English: https://f.mtr.cool/ouacbopapo
Español: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/rrcshyryqh
January 22, 2026 at 12:01 PM
💧🌿 The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and persistence made it happen: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/blkkmbghfg
Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/blkkmbghfg
January 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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: https://f.mtr.cool/blkkmbghfg
Read more: https://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
January 20, 2026 at 12:02 PM
💧🌿 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: https://f.mtr.cool/jmopxtevxd
January 19, 2026 at 12:01 PM
🌧️🌿 La Amazonía está perdiendo capacidad para generar su propia lluvia, mientras tribunales del continente avanzan por los Derechos de la Naturaleza: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/ukeeixklzj
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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: https://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.
Serie La Constitución de Montecristi ratificada No. 3: LOS DERECHOS DE LA NATURALEZA
LOS DERECHOS DE LA NATURALEZA: UN SISTEMA RESPIRATORIO QUE PERMITE QUE TODO LO DEMÁS EXISTA, FUNCIONE Y SE SOSTENGA Acción Ecológica Opina La intención de eliminar o debilitar los Derechos […]
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January 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM
🌿🇪🇨 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: https://f.mtr.cool/serdhhptoj
January 14, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/cdervmgxzn
Read the full article and learn more about Maude’s work and upcoming book Earth For Sale: https://f.mtr.cool/cdervmgxzn
January 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
🌿 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: https://f.mtr.cool/cdervmgxzn
Read the full article and learn more about Maude’s work and upcoming book Earth For Sale: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/zmjbhukdxa
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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: https://f.mtr.cool/zmjbhukdxa
Reposted by Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins
(Thanks to the rights of nature)
insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...
(Thanks to the rights of nature)
insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...
In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins - Inside Climate News
The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extincti...
insideclimatenews.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins
(Thanks to the rights of nature)
insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...
(Thanks to the rights of nature)
insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...
Reposted by Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
An Ecuadorian court has blocked construction of a highway to protect a critically endangered toad, citing the rights of nature.
In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins - Inside Climate News
The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extincti...
insideclimatenews.org
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 AM
An Ecuadorian court has blocked construction of a highway to protect a critically endangered toad, citing the rights of nature.
Reposted by Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
Perú da un paso adelante en el movimiento jurídico Derechos de la Naturaleza al dar los primeros derechos legales a un insecto: las abejas sin aguijón de la Amazonía. 🐝
Cuento todos los detalles en este artículo 👇
www.20minutos.es/medio-ambien...
Cuento todos los detalles en este artículo 👇
www.20minutos.es/medio-ambien...
Las primeras abejas del mundo con derechos viven en el Amazonas
Pesticidas, deforestación y abejas invasoras amenazan a estas polinizadoras de la selva peruana.
www.20minutos.es
January 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Perú da un paso adelante en el movimiento jurídico Derechos de la Naturaleza al dar los primeros derechos legales a un insecto: las abejas sin aguijón de la Amazonía. 🐝
Cuento todos los detalles en este artículo 👇
www.20minutos.es/medio-ambien...
Cuento todos los detalles en este artículo 👇
www.20minutos.es/medio-ambien...
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
sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/good-living
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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
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: https://f.mtr.cool/eslicpldgl
More information: https://f.mtr.cool/eslicpldgl
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM
🌄✨ Pyramid Mountain in Colorado, U.S., has become the first mountain in the country to own itself.
More information: https://f.mtr.cool/eslicpldgl
More information: https://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
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
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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
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
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 PM
🐸🇪🇨 #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