Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
@garnglobal.bsky.social
Global hub for connecting and fostering relationships, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to advance the Rights of Nature. More information: www.garn.org
🌍 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
⚖️ 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
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌍 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
⚖️ 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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MA Climate & Society student Christopher Swain swims long, polluted rivers to advocate for clean water and environmental justice, and is currently promoting a proposed US constitutional amendment to protect the rights of nature. Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4iOor0v
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
MA Climate & Society student Christopher Swain swims long, polluted rivers to advocate for clean water and environmental justice, and is currently promoting a proposed US constitutional amendment to protect the rights of nature. Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4iOor0v
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“The fundamental issue is how transnational corporations have engineered an international system of impunity that allows them to violate human rights, environmental laws and the rights of nature.” - Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“The fundamental issue is how transnational corporations have engineered an international system of impunity that allows them to violate human rights, environmental laws and the rights of nature.” - Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco
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In Ecuador’s Los Cedros cloud forest, activists used the country’s constitutional “rights of nature” law to stop mining. A landmark 2021 ruling protected the forest—but the fight isn’t over.
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
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Does nature have rights? In 2008, Ecuador said yes. Doing so forced a reckoning with the country’s mining past.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In Ecuador’s Los Cedros cloud forest, activists used the country’s constitutional “rights of nature” law to stop mining. A landmark 2021 ruling protected the forest—but the fight isn’t over.
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️
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"Is a River Alive?" is a gorgeous, thought-provoking exploration of the Rights of Nature movement framed around trips to three threatened rivers, as well as a rich potential source for speculative ideas and discussion
From Cloud Forests to Toxic Trampolines: Robert Macfarlane’s Is A River Alive? - Reactor
What does it mean, and how does the world change, if we see rivers as living entities?
reactormag.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Is a River Alive?" is a gorgeous, thought-provoking exploration of the Rights of Nature movement framed around trips to three threatened rivers, as well as a rich potential source for speculative ideas and discussion
🍃 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.
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🍃 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: https://f.mtr.cool/ubeyqubpgh
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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: https://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
December 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎧💚 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: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
➕ More information: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
💧 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: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
➕ More information: https://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
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
December 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
💦 “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
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:
Stingless Bees are at risk
Our support can help get them legal rights
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December 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
Listen now: garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎧 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
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: https://f.mtr.cool/egbgdimmbf
More information: https://f.mtr.cool/egbgdimmbf
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🇵🇪💧 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: https://f.mtr.cool/egbgdimmbf
More information: https://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: https://f.mtr.cool/leccexltws
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: https://f.mtr.cool/leccexltws
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
💧 “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: https://f.mtr.cool/leccexltws
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: https://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.
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.
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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.
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
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
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
💧 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
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
📄 garn.org/iucn-2025
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🌍✨ 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
📄 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
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
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🌎 #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
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:
Jurist über eigene Rechte für Flüsse: „Die Spree würde den Staat verklagen“
Eine Petition will dem Fluss zu Rechten verhelfen. Ein Gespräch mit dem Juristen Emmanuel Schlichter über die Vision einer Stadt, die ihre Wasseradern schützt.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Interesting interview about the rights of rivers in Germany:
💧💙 In case you missed it: We hosted a powerful online conversation to celebrate the launch of Is A River Alive?, featuring its acclaimed author @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, river guardians Ramiro Ávila and Viviana González, moderated by Natalia Greene and Tosana Töben.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/A-vVyQ5PyvQ
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/A-vVyQ5PyvQ
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
💧💙 In case you missed it: We hosted a powerful online conversation to celebrate the launch of Is A River Alive?, featuring its acclaimed author @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, river guardians Ramiro Ávila and Viviana González, moderated by Natalia Greene and Tosana Töben.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/A-vVyQ5PyvQ
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/A-vVyQ5PyvQ
How to Listen When Nature Speaks
Nature is sending us signals every moment. Yet we’ve been taught to tune them out, even as natural systems reach a breaking point. The question is: how do we re-train ourselves to listen?
Nature is sending us signals every moment. Yet we’ve been taught to tune them out, even as natural systems reach a breaking point. The question is: how do we re-train ourselves to listen?
How to Listen When Nature Speaks — Weave News
A new toolkit from Talking Rivers invites organizations to rethink their relationship with the living world—through language, governance, and the simple act of listening.
f.mtr.cool
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
How to Listen When Nature Speaks
Nature is sending us signals every moment. Yet we’ve been taught to tune them out, even as natural systems reach a breaking point. The question is: how do we re-train ourselves to listen?
Nature is sending us signals every moment. Yet we’ve been taught to tune them out, even as natural systems reach a breaking point. The question is: how do we re-train ourselves to listen?
🇪🇨 In Ecuador’s recent referendum, 62% voted NO to rewriting the Constitution, protecting the world’s first constitutional recognition of the Rights of Nature.
📖 Read GARN's Global Director, Nati Greene's op-ed: news.pachamama.org/no-to-noboa-yes-to-rights-of-nature
📖 Read GARN's Global Director, Nati Greene's op-ed: news.pachamama.org/no-to-noboa-yes-to-rights-of-nature
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🇪🇨 In Ecuador’s recent referendum, 62% voted NO to rewriting the Constitution, protecting the world’s first constitutional recognition of the Rights of Nature.
📖 Read GARN's Global Director, Nati Greene's op-ed: news.pachamama.org/no-to-noboa-yes-to-rights-of-nature
📖 Read GARN's Global Director, Nati Greene's op-ed: news.pachamama.org/no-to-noboa-yes-to-rights-of-nature
📖💧 Virtual Book Launch & Special GARN Youth Hub Book Club Session ✨ Is A River Alive? with author @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
📅 Tuesday, November 25
🕧 12:30 PM (Ecuador time)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/is-a-river-alive
📅 Tuesday, November 25
🕧 12:30 PM (Ecuador time)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/is-a-river-alive
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
📖💧 Virtual Book Launch & Special GARN Youth Hub Book Club Session ✨ Is A River Alive? with author @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
📅 Tuesday, November 25
🕧 12:30 PM (Ecuador time)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/is-a-river-alive
📅 Tuesday, November 25
🕧 12:30 PM (Ecuador time)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/is-a-river-alive
Podcast | Great Lakes Now
When we think about who has rights under the law, we usually think of people or organizations. But what about Nature? A growing movement argues that natural resources, like the Great Lakes, should have guaranteed rights: https://f.mtr.cool/iyiazcgira
When we think about who has rights under the law, we usually think of people or organizations. But what about Nature? A growing movement argues that natural resources, like the Great Lakes, should have guaranteed rights: https://f.mtr.cool/iyiazcgira
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Podcast | Great Lakes Now
When we think about who has rights under the law, we usually think of people or organizations. But what about Nature? A growing movement argues that natural resources, like the Great Lakes, should have guaranteed rights: https://f.mtr.cool/iyiazcgira
When we think about who has rights under the law, we usually think of people or organizations. But what about Nature? A growing movement argues that natural resources, like the Great Lakes, should have guaranteed rights: https://f.mtr.cool/iyiazcgira
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💧✨ Along the Guamá River outside Belém, nearly 200 of us gathered — relatives from every corner of the world — to celebrate 15 years of GARN and the growing heartbeat of the Rights of Nature movement. 🌎💚 @garnglobal
#COP30 #MovementRights #RightsofNature #Amazonia #Belém #GuamaRiver
#COP30 #MovementRights #RightsofNature #Amazonia #Belém #GuamaRiver
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
💧✨ Along the Guamá River outside Belém, nearly 200 of us gathered — relatives from every corner of the world — to celebrate 15 years of GARN and the growing heartbeat of the Rights of Nature movement. 🌎💚 @garnglobal
#COP30 #MovementRights #RightsofNature #Amazonia #Belém #GuamaRiver
#COP30 #MovementRights #RightsofNature #Amazonia #Belém #GuamaRiver