United voice
Who is behind this campaign? Indigenous leaders are behind this campaign. It began with a call to Indigenous voices around the world to speak with a united voice, as the legal advocates for Nature. Follow us on all social channels to see their response.
Nature is asking for help. Nature. Mother Nature. She's asking for help. Because we live within her.
This is the gold we take care of, this water is for the benefit of ous and our future generations.
As Nature is our Mother, she has her own rights. She gives us our food, gives us life, this is where we can live and coexist with Nature.
We are her administrators and we have to be respectful. Because Mother Nature has no owner.
Without her we can't live. Without her, we the Indigenous poeple, we're nothing. Because Nature and Indigenous people are connected.
We are the defenders and the resistence of the Nature of this planet. Because there's no other planet. That's the one we have. There's no other planet to go. So we need to protect this planet all in all.
The Earth is autonomous. The Earth is savvy. The Earth is intelligent. It can't be considered something private.
We must take care of Mother Earth so that no disease reaches our Mother Earth.
We are making a call and Nature is making this call to respect her.
We need to care and respect. You have to follow the message from above. This is how we have to live as the guardians of the jungle.
In our territory, we the Saamaka people are struggling to protect and defend our forest.
The Earth, the Mother Earth, includes all the ancestral beings from the jungle.
Nature has the same full rights as us. Today we are fighting to protect Nature, but we need more support for Nature. Because it's Nature that protects us and always takes care for us.
Let us not forget that we live within her and we are part of Earth, Mother Nature needs our care.
Calling for the care of the rights of Mother Earth, Mother Nature, recognizing from there is born the life of all living beings…
I am thinking deeply how and what I should do in the conservation field, so that the vanishing wildlife including animals, birds, and plants will be increased from now on in and around the sanctuary.
We have a symbiotic relationship with Nature. With the trees, the water, the land, earth, and lifeforce.
She is our Mother. Just as our mother takes care of us, so we should take care of her too... Sometimes we should give her a gift.
Our life depends on the jungle for food, building materials, medicines, and our culture and values are based on harmony with the jungle.
The Earth is the mother of us all and if we neglect her we neglect ourselves. As she is not something separate from us but she's the essence of our being, and her rights should be recognized.
A llamamiento formal para una voz global unida. Necesitamos que los derechos de La Naturaleza sean reconocidos formalmente en la ONU.
We have more value in Nature, there in the forest. We feel that this is our home.
Nature has life and feels pain just as we feel it when we are sick.
Mother Earth has rights, rights that are binding us. As her children we have responsibilities to take care of her, to protect her, to respect her.
The forest is our life, the forest is verything to us. We are born and raised in the forest. That's why we protect and defend the forest. Because forest brings us life. The forest is our home.
We Indigenous peoples, have an authority, right and responsibility to speak up for Nature. Nobody own her, she own herself. Nature is not separate from us. We are connected. We are one.
Nature is sovereign, and as such, Nature has rights. Including the right not just to exist, but to thrive. Humans should coexist with Nature. Because we are part of Nature.
No one owns Nature. Nature owns herself. We can only speak for Nature, and protect it. Because Nature helps us all.
The rights of Nature are completely interrealted with human rights. Thanks to her we exist, thanks to her we have life. - For us, since time immemorial, Nature is alive
As children of the Earth, we accept that human laws have been misaligned with the laws of Life. To remedy this, we recognize that human laws are superseded by the laws of Nature. That Nature has rights, within which humans have both rights and responsibilities, and only lastly fall economic rights which are a human concept.
Current laws
NATURE
No rights
PEOPLE
Human rights
ECONOMY
Corporate/
Property rights
Human rights enforceable against governments but not corporations.
Nature has no rights.
nature’s rights law
NATURE
Nature’s rights
PEOPLE
Human rights
ECONOMY
Corporate/
Property rights
Nested heirarchy of synergistic rights.
Nature’s rights integrated as the foundation of all other rights.
a Primer on Nature’s rights
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Right to respect
Nature and its laws merit respect. Natural law does not follow human thought, human laws, or human logic. When these laws conflict, consequences follow Nature’s laws. Therefore it is human laws, institutions, and systems that must conform to Nature’s logic, laws, design, and principles.
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Right to exist
Nature (every ecosystem, species, element, and natural entity) has an inherent right to exist, persist and continue its vital cycles. This right ensures that natural entities are not treated merely as property and resources for human use but are recognized for their own intrinsic value.
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Right to health
Nature has the right to maintain ecosystem health and function, including ecological integrity, feedback mechanisms necessary to achieve balance, and other natural processes including evolution. Homeostasis is the hallmark of Life at all levels. This includes the conservation of biodiversity, the right of species to their habitats, and the preservation of ecosystems from destruction or fragmentation. Furthermore, Nature has the right to maintain the integrity of its natural circulatory systems, including wind, sand, freshwater, ocean, and ice flows.
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Right to resilience
Nature has the right to maintain its ecosystems and species populations in a resilient condition. Humans have a responsibility to rectify activities that have reduced the natural environment below resilient levels and restore the health and vitality of affected areas. Offsets and monetary compensation have no relevance to Nature and may not be used as a substitute for restoration.
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Right to natural evolution
Nature has the right to develop its regenerative evolution. Humans have a responsibility to protect Nature from human-induced designs such as genetically engineered crops, and genetically modified organisms as well as from human interventions such as the introduction of invasive species.
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Right to metabolize
Nature has the right to recycle waste. Humans have a responsibility to align with Nature’s processes. This includes the right to be protected from substances that do not have natural degradation processes. This includes light, air, water, soil, and noise pollution.
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Right to legal representation
Natural entities are entitled to legal representation in all forums where their rights might be affected. The rights declared herein must be enforceable through legal and administrative actions, ensuring violations can be addressed and remedied. Any citizen born in those lands may take up a case representing the rights of Nature in that locality.
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Right to self-ownership
Nature has the right to self-ownership. Humans have a responsibility to both establish, and recognize existing legal structures which enable Nature’s self-ownership and human stewardship.
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"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
— Chief Seattle
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“The Siekopai will defend their forests with their lives because, without their forests, they cannot be Siekopai. We need to act."
—Mike McColms, PhD, Ethnographer
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“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.”
—David Foreman
I want to tell you that as I breathe, the mountains and the animals breathe as well.
“I want to tell you that as I breathe, the mountains and the animals breathe as well.” – Hipólito Esequiel Jamioy Chindoy, Traditional community doctor and expert in medicinal plants, Kamëntsá (Camsá), Colombia
I want to tell you that as I breathe, the mountains and the animals breathe as well. I want to invite everyone to unite and protect all of this biodiversity. And to help us to keep conserving it, like we're doing here. We recognize those rights and we support all of those who protect this biodiversity.