Leading the way:

• Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, is a network that connects organizations that promote the recognition, guarantee and protection of the rights of nature as a transversal idea for all organizations in order to recognize nature as a subject of rights in order to change the unsustainable pattern that the planet and humanity are facing.

• Ecuador Constitution:  Rights for Nature  In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to add Rights for Nature in their new constitution.
               
• Rights of Nature:  The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is working with communities that recognize that environmental protection cannot be attained under a structure of law that treats natural communities and ecosystems as property.
               
• Awakening the Dream Symposium is offered world-wide through The Pachamama Alliance with the intention “To bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.”

Books and Articles:

• Does Nature Have Rights?
  
  Does Nature Have Rights? is a thought-provoking collection of essays presenting a compelling new paradigm.                
                                       
• “If Nature Had Rights, What would peope need to give up?”

Cormac Cullinan is and environmental attorney from Cape Town, South Africa. He has been an advocate for rights of nature around the world supporting communities, governments and companies.  Consulting with the organizations in Ecuador and The First Peoples Conference on Climate Change and Rights of Nature, he has provided leadership for the crafting of Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and Rights for Nature.  He is the author of Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice, a compelling stand for the rights of nature. 

• Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice  Read an excerpt from Cormac Cullinan’s manifesto that has propelled efforts for a global declarations of rights of nature.
                     
• Should Trees Have Standing? And Other Essays on Law, Morals and the Environment by Christopher Stone.  Stone launched a world wide debate around the rights of nature and challenged a decision of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that found the Sierra Club Legal Defesnse Fund did Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? launched a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.         

Videos:

• Rights of Nature Panel Dialogue with Cormac Cullinan, Natalia Green, and Thomas Linzey moderated by Bill Twist in San Francisco, April 26, 2011.
• Wild Law – Cormac Cullinan – World People’s Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, Bolivia
              
• Reclaiming Democracy: How Communities are saying “NO” to Corporate Rights and Recognizing the Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Shannon Biggs
       
• The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
              
• An interview with Thomas Berry on Nature and Humans

Podcasts:

• Bill Twist interviewed by Michael Stone on Conversations KVMR 89.5.  Listen to Bill Twist: Environmental and Social Transformation in South America (Please be patient and allows this to load.)

Symposiums:           

• Awakening the Dream Symposium is offered world-wide through The Pachamama Alliance with the intention “To bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.”

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