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The Tharaka community in Kenya adapts Amazonian mapping methods to create Life Plans — participatory governance tools that weave seed sovereignty, sacred site protection, and customary law into a holistic vision of territorial stewardship.
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature has convened its fifth tribunal, this time with an expanded mandate covering ocean governance and AI-mediated environmental harm — territory that bridges Garden and Spaceship orientations.
From Kenyan clans reviving biocultural knowledge to Antarctic rights advocacy, communities worldwide are rekindling what Thomas Berry called the 'Great Conversation' — governance as relationship, not extraction.
A regional French programme letting forests and wetlands recover without human interference joins a network of 105 rewilding initiatives — advancing a governance model where ecosystems manage themselves.
A citizen initiative in Lucerne canton has gathered 5,460 signatures to grant legal personhood to the River Reuss — launching a constitutional process that will test whether democratic systems can recognize nature as a rights-bearing entity.
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature seeks interns across communications, tribunal support, and organizing — roles that build the operational capacity behind legal ecosystems protection and governance experimentation.
Legal advocacy organisation advancing rights of nature through drafting legislation, supporting court cases, and developing the Universal Declaration of River Rights.
A whole-system planetary governance consultancy that helps governments and institutions redesign constitutions, policies, and decision-making frameworks to account for the rights of nature, future generations, and the living commons. Operates as a non-hierarchical co-stewardship collective. Applies permaculture, indigenous land stewardship, and digital commons perspectives.
UK-based foundation advancing earth jurisprudence, seed sovereignty, and community ecological governance across Africa and South America. Pioneers of the 'earth jurisprudence' legal-philosophical framework.
International network advancing rights of nature through legal frameworks, hosting International Rights of Nature Tribunals, and supporting community-led campaigns for ecosystem legal personhood.
A framework and network coordinated by Ashish Kothari (founding member of Kalpavriksh) advocating for governance rooted in ecological integrity, direct participation, equity, and the rights of nature. Argues that meaningful transformation requires links between grassroots alternatives and peoples' global assemblies, and challenges the assumption that a single universal governance framework can serve a pluriverse of peoples and ecologies.
Non-profit advocating for recognition of nature's inherent rights within Swedish law, part of global movement for Earth jurisprudence. Also known as Naturens Rattigheter.
Voluntary NGO promoting Sami rights and interests across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Permanent participant in the Arctic Council representing over 100,000 Sami people.