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
💧💙 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.
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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
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Honoured to be a Judge on International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature at #cop30
Amazing opening from indigenous leaders from around the world!
Amazing opening from indigenous leaders from around the world!
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Honoured to be a Judge on International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature at #cop30
Amazing opening from indigenous leaders from around the world!
Amazing opening from indigenous leaders from around the world!
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🌿🌍 At COP30 in Belém, the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: A New Pledge for Mother Nature -- brought together Indigenous leadership to bring together the analyses, findings, and judgments.
#RightsofNature #COP30 #Belém #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousLeadership
#RightsofNature #COP30 #Belém #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousLeadership
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🌿🌍 At COP30 in Belém, the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: A New Pledge for Mother Nature -- brought together Indigenous leadership to bring together the analyses, findings, and judgments.
#RightsofNature #COP30 #Belém #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousLeadership
#RightsofNature #COP30 #Belém #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousLeadership
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From the Rights of Nature Tribunal at COP30, Belém:
Leonela Moncayo (Ecuador) testified:
“We do not have water. We do not have air to breathe… If it wasn’t for RON, we wouldn’t be here.”
Leonela Moncayo (Ecuador) testified:
“We do not have water. We do not have air to breathe… If it wasn’t for RON, we wouldn’t be here.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
From the Rights of Nature Tribunal at COP30, Belém:
Leonela Moncayo (Ecuador) testified:
“We do not have water. We do not have air to breathe… If it wasn’t for RON, we wouldn’t be here.”
Leonela Moncayo (Ecuador) testified:
“We do not have water. We do not have air to breathe… If it wasn’t for RON, we wouldn’t be here.”
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Check out the recording of 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: A New Pledge for Mother Nature from Brazil.
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6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: A New Pledge for Mother Nature - YouTube
The 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal closed with its third and final session titled A New Pledge For Mother Nature, a culminating event that broug...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Check out the recording of 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: A New Pledge for Mother Nature from Brazil.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly to maintain their “ecological constitution” that recognizes the rights of nature.
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly to maintain their “ecological constitution” that recognizes the rights of nature.
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Read this @naturerecovery.bsky.social article on why the rights of nature matters in the broader green transition – one tool of many helping us reimagine economies, policies and daily choices that can align with the living world. naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/reflect...
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Read this @naturerecovery.bsky.social article on why the rights of nature matters in the broader green transition – one tool of many helping us reimagine economies, policies and daily choices that can align with the living world. naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/reflect...
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'A river or a forest possibly being a rights-bearing entity is a radical act of moral political imagination.'
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on the rights of nature.
Tune in: www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th... @expeditions.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on the rights of nature.
Tune in: www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th... @expeditions.bsky.social
The rights of nature
I have been interested in rivers, in the idea of life — what is alive and what is dead — and how the boundary between life and death is policed and patrolled. I have been particularly fascinated by on...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
'A river or a forest possibly being a rights-bearing entity is a radical act of moral political imagination.'
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on the rights of nature.
Tune in: www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th... @expeditions.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on the rights of nature.
Tune in: www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th... @expeditions.bsky.social
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“This is a win for life, for nature, for Earth defenders,” said Natalia Greene, director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
Greene was speaking about Ecuador's affirmation of its 2008 constitution, which recognizes nature has inherent rights to exist and regenerate.
Greene was speaking about Ecuador's affirmation of its 2008 constitution, which recognizes nature has inherent rights to exist and regenerate.
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases
insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases
insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“This is a win for life, for nature, for Earth defenders,” said Natalia Greene, director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
Greene was speaking about Ecuador's affirmation of its 2008 constitution, which recognizes nature has inherent rights to exist and regenerate.
Greene was speaking about Ecuador's affirmation of its 2008 constitution, which recognizes nature has inherent rights to exist and regenerate.
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We invite you to watch an NC WARN hosted webinar with the amazing Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck of 7 Directions of Service, exploring the important of Indigenous climate leadership and the Rights of Nature movement.
Watch the webinar today! youtu.be/zCsNNwAGPiQ?... 🌿
Watch the webinar today! youtu.be/zCsNNwAGPiQ?... 🌿
Rights of Nature and Indigenous Climate Advocacy
YouTube video by NC WARN
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November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We invite you to watch an NC WARN hosted webinar with the amazing Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck of 7 Directions of Service, exploring the important of Indigenous climate leadership and the Rights of Nature movement.
Watch the webinar today! youtu.be/zCsNNwAGPiQ?... 🌿
Watch the webinar today! youtu.be/zCsNNwAGPiQ?... 🌿
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🌱 As TVC News Nigeria highlights, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal at COP 30 called for urgent, rights‑based protection for ecosystems — not just carbon markets.
WATCH HERE: 👀 https://loom.ly/eTfwD8A
WATCH HERE: 👀 https://loom.ly/eTfwD8A
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🌱 As TVC News Nigeria highlights, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal at COP 30 called for urgent, rights‑based protection for ecosystems — not just carbon markets.
WATCH HERE: 👀 https://loom.ly/eTfwD8A
WATCH HERE: 👀 https://loom.ly/eTfwD8A
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#RightsoftheNature - The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industrial economy.
#ClimateJustice
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152554-th...
#ClimateJustice
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152554-th...
The rights of nature: reason versus the industrial economy
The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industr...
www.justiceinfo.net
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#RightsoftheNature - The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industrial economy.
#ClimateJustice
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152554-th...
#ClimateJustice
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152554-th...
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Ecuador. Sin derechos de la Naturaleza, la libertad es una ilusión rebelion.org/sin-derechos...
Sin derechos de la Naturaleza, la libertad es una ilusión – Rebelion
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November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ecuador. Sin derechos de la Naturaleza, la libertad es una ilusión rebelion.org/sin-derechos...
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Los derechos de la naturaleza como innovación jurídica y herramienta de sensibilización ciudadana. Ayer se presentó la declaración del Río Manzanares que distintas organizaciones vecinales, ecologistas y culturales están promoviendo. amp-elmundo-es.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.elmu...
El río Manzanares, "pobrecito mío", reclama obtener personalidad jurídica inspirado por la ley pionera del Mar Menor: "Imagínate cómo sería bañarte en sus aguas"
Carga sobre su cauce centurias de chanzas y menosprecio populares. Cervantes lo tildó de «humilde» y Quevedo de ser un «arroyo aprendiz de río» o de que &la
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November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Los derechos de la naturaleza como innovación jurídica y herramienta de sensibilización ciudadana. Ayer se presentó la declaración del Río Manzanares que distintas organizaciones vecinales, ecologistas y culturales están promoviendo. amp-elmundo-es.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.elmu...
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El derecho humano a un medio ambiente sano y los derechos de la naturaleza a debate en el Miteco https://efeverde.com/el-derecho-humano-a-un-medio-ambiente-sano-y-los-derechos-de-la-naturaleza-a-debate-en-el-miteco/
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
El derecho humano a un medio ambiente sano y los derechos de la naturaleza a debate en el Miteco https://efeverde.com/el-derecho-humano-a-un-medio-ambiente-sano-y-los-derechos-de-la-naturaleza-a-debate-en-el-miteco/
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"Communities Stand for the Rights of Nature: From Ecuador to Ireland and the Balkans to Brazil, Grassroots Voices Unite in Belém"
Read the full statement: yestolifenotomining.org/latest-news/...
#RightsofNature #DefendTheEarth #PostExtractiveFuture
@garnglobal.bsky.social @earththrive.bsky.social
Read the full statement: yestolifenotomining.org/latest-news/...
#RightsofNature #DefendTheEarth #PostExtractiveFuture
@garnglobal.bsky.social @earththrive.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Communities Stand for the Rights of Nature: From Ecuador to Ireland and the Balkans to Brazil, Grassroots Voices Unite in Belém"
Read the full statement: yestolifenotomining.org/latest-news/...
#RightsofNature #DefendTheEarth #PostExtractiveFuture
@garnglobal.bsky.social @earththrive.bsky.social
Read the full statement: yestolifenotomining.org/latest-news/...
#RightsofNature #DefendTheEarth #PostExtractiveFuture
@garnglobal.bsky.social @earththrive.bsky.social
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With global ecological systems unraveling, #RightsofNature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. New reporting by Laura Hayter, with @garnglobal.bsky.social at #COP30.
deceleration.news/call-for-leg...
deceleration.news/call-for-leg...
Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference – Deceleration
With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. A...
deceleration.news
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
With global ecological systems unraveling, #RightsofNature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. New reporting by Laura Hayter, with @garnglobal.bsky.social at #COP30.
deceleration.news/call-for-leg...
deceleration.news/call-for-leg...
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Well done #Ecuador! Another victory for Nature with @garnglobal.bsky.social ✊🏼 insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Well done #Ecuador! Another victory for Nature with @garnglobal.bsky.social ✊🏼 insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
🌏 "The Rights of Nature paradigm shift will both protect people and the planet"
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌏 "The Rights of Nature paradigm shift will both protect people and the planet"
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
🌏 "The Rights of Nature paradigm shift will both protect people and the planet"
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌏 "The Rights of Nature paradigm shift will both protect people and the planet"
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature
In Episode 9 of our podcast, Yolanda Esguerra of PMPI shares how faith communities, youth, and lawmakers are uniting to recognize the Rights of Nature in the Philippines.
🎧 garn.org/conversations-with-mother-nature