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Kebaowek First Nation is defending the Kichi Sibi from a proposed nuclear waste dump by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, arguing for their right to free, prior & informed consent under #UNDRIP. Water is life. Protect the river that protects us all. 💧
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Kebaowek First Nation - Raven Trust
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October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Amid mining & ag pressure in Papua, youth rise to defend Indigenous forests, blending ancestral wisdom with tech to map & protect their lands. Recognition lags despite legislation. #Papua #IndigenousRights #Forests #ClimateJustice
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October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#NatureRights #IndigenousRights
September 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Native American Teens Kayak Major US River to Celebrate Removal of Dams and Return of Salmon | The Klamath River is newly navigable after a decades-long fight to remove its 4 dams to restore the salmon run—an ancient source of life, food & culture for local tribes for millennia.
READ: bit.ly/3UbYWuj
July 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Illegal loggers are cashing in on Brazil’s carbon credit boom—many projects are run by those fined for deforestation, duping the system and greenwashing with global registries and buyers like Boeing & Telefónica: www.reuters.com/business/env...
#Amazon #forestcarbon #Indigenousrights #naturerights
Illegal loggers profit from Brazil’s carbon credit projects
How a system designed to protect the world’s biggest rainforest is funding businesses with a track record of illegal deforestation.
www.reuters.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Canada conveniently treats the ocean as empty—“mare nullius”—ignoring Indigenous rights to justify offshore development without consent.
This legal fiction erases oceanic title, presence & stewardship.
New Brief from Yellowhead: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/07/15/r...
#OceanJustice #IndigenousRights
Recognition and Erasure of Indigenous Oceanic Rights and Title
Canada continues to treat the ocean as void of Indigenous presence or rights, using the fiction of "mare nullius" to justify offshore development without needed Indigenous consent. In this Brief, Mich...
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July 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Old-growth forests deserve legal personhood!
us.theguardian.com Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · Jun 24
The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced this week.
June 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Trump abandoned the Columbia Basin Agreement—undermining #salmon recovery and breaking treaty promises with Northwest tribes. This policy reversal is a betrayal of sovereign #IndigenousRights and decades of hard-won progress. www.opb.org/article/2025...
#TreatyRights #ColumbiaRiver #NatureRights
Trump upends historic Columbia River Basin agreement, bringing uncertainty to salmon recovery efforts
President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.
www.opb.org
June 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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@ the U.N.OceanConference, Tonga’s princess proposed giving whales legal personhood—rights to life, migration, habitat & cultural protection—represented by human guardians. A powerful shift, rooted in Indigenous wisdom & ocean justice: insideclimatenews.org/news/1006202... #NatureRights #WhaleRights
Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News
At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.
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June 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The global #RightsofNature movement is transforming law & culture—urging us to treat rivers, forests & ecosystems as living entities, not resources.
Time to rethink humanity’s place and reframe our legal and economic systems.
#EarthLaw www.eurasiareview.com/30052025-how...
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June 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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After 120+ years, California’s Yurok Tribe has regained ~47K acres (73 sq miles) of ancestral land along the #Klamath —now a sacred salmon and community forest. A powerful example of Indigenous stewardship and Land Back in action.
#LandBack #IndigenousStewards #Yurok abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
California's Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them
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June 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Northwest tribes warn that Trump’s 2026 budget proposal would slash the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund—violating treaty rights and jeopardizing salmon runs, jobs, ecosystems, and communities. www.opb.org/article/2025...
#TreatyRights #Salmon #NatureRights #IndigenousRights
Northwest tribes say Trump’s proposed salmon budget cuts violate treaty rights
The White House’s proposed 2026 budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would eliminate the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, the leading source of money for restoring the N...
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June 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In Cambodia’s Preah Roka and Prey Lang forests, Indigenous communities risk their safety to protect their ancestral lands from illegal logging. Despite their efforts, these defenders face intimidation and threats. Read more: e360.yale.edu/features/pre... #NatureRights #IndigenousRights #Cambodia
Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging
The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to illicit logging. Now, community members face intimidation and risk arrest as they patrol their forests to...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Could a river sue a corporation?
Robert Macfarlane explores the global rise of legal rights for rivers—rooted in Indigenous knowledge and resistance to extraction.
What if we saw rivers as beings, not resources?
Read more: theconversation.com/could-a-rive...
#RightsOfNature #RiverRights
Could a river sue a corporation? Robert Macfarlane’s books change the world – now he’s advocating for the world’s waterways
The revered nature writer asks ambitious questions in his latest work, written at a tipping point for the world’s climate.
theconversation.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear the case to protect Oak Flat—clearing the way for a copper mine on sacred Apache land. A two-mile crater will erase a forest site of deep spiritual importance.
This isn’t progress. It’s erasure.
Read more: wapo.st/3yxjbZb
#OakFlat #IndigenousRights #NatureRights
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May 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Ancient forests in BC are still being destroyed. Despite promises, BC Timber Sales auctions old growth to loggers like West Fraser & Tolko near Spring Lake, Hilda Creek & Trio Creek. Stand.earth’s#ForestEyey#OldGrowtht#BCForeststs https://act.stand.earth/page/email/message/view?broadcastId=395404
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May 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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81% of critical #habitat for at-risk species in B.C. remains unprotected, despite federal standards. The province permits industrial #logging in these areas, undermining conservation efforts. Without enforceable protections, #biodiversity continues to decline:
thenarwhal.ca/bc-endangere...
B.C. failing to protect 81% critical habitat for at-risk species: docs | The Narwhal
B.C. allows industrial logging in critical habitat for at-risk species – part of the reason it's a long way from meeting federal standards
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May 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Carbon market integrity demands recognition of High Forest, Low Deforestation (HFLD) areas. This piece makes a compelling case for integrating Indigenous-led HFLD stewardship into ICVCM-aligned crediting frameworks—addressing leakage, permanence & equity gaps. No #HFLD = no integrity.
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Environmental science and conservation news
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May 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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At the UN, Indigenous delegates sound the alarm: isolated Indigenous Peoples face extinction—yet their rights are ignored. These communities are vital stewards of Earth’s last wild places. Protecting them protects us all.
Read more: grist.org/global-indig...
#IndigenousRights #NatureStewards #UNPFII
Indigenous delegates at the UN raise alarm on voluntary isolated peoples
Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments in South America.
grist.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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#Indigenous leadership in action: Bolivia’s Sena municipality just added 1.1M acres to a 25M-acre #Amazon #conservation mosaic. Protecting #forests, #biodiversity & livelihoods—by and for local communities. www.conservation.org/blog/in-boli... #IndigenousStewardship #NatureRights #Bolivia
In Bolivia, a ‘conservation mosaic’ gets another (big) piece
In the remote lowland forests of northwestern Bolivia, a small community has taken a big step to protect one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions.
www.conservation.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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New Forest 500 data reveals only 16 of 500 high-risk companies have credible deforestation-free supply chain plans. The rest lag behind, risking #climate, #biodiversity, and #humanrights. Corporate inaction is no longer tenable. Details: www.reuters.com/sustainabili....
#NatureRights #Forest #ESG
Business failure to act on deforestation puts everyone at risk
Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats for a wealth of biodiversity, home to 300 million people and support the livelihoods of over a billion people. Yet forests, and the benefits they bring, are threatened by companies and the banks that finance them.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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After more than a year of protests by environmental and Indigenous advocates, the Manitoba government announced its plans to save a forest from property development.

The Lemay Forest is located in a historic area known for the Red River Métis settlements.
Manitoba to save Lemay Forest from property development after protests | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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April 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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At the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal, nine judges ruled against Canadian mining companies for violating collective rights, Indigenous rights, and the rights of nature. This decision is a validation of the growing global movement to recognize the Earth as a living entity with rights.
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations insideclimatenews.org/news/2504202...
#LandRights
‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations - Inside Climate News
Indigenous women from across the world discuss their struggles against the pollution of their ancestral lands and the displacement of their communities.
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April 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Xatśūll First Nation has filed for an injunction against Imperial Metals as well as a judicial review of BC's decision to allow the company to raise the #MountPolley mine tailings dam without the nation's consent or an environmental assessment. #BCMining #EnvironmentalJustice
First Nation asks court to halt infamous B.C. mining site expansion | The Narwhal
Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.
thenarwhal.ca
April 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM