Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 31, 2025

New Zealand mountain granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
https://apnews.com/article/mountain-zealand-personhood-maori-taranak-590fca0f3d648cc0bf86d970782e954c
Mount Taranaki - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Taranaki

#NewZealand #Indigenous #Māori #Maori #MountTaranaki #TaranakiMaunga #MountEgmont
#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateLitigation
#LegalPerson #LegalPersonhood #EnvironmentalPersonhood
#Indigenous #autonomy

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The law fulfils a 2023 settlement between the government and Māori which provided redress for land theft and other British Crown breaches of New Zealand’s founding treaty during colonization. The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North Island.

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 13, 2025

Nature Goes to Court
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/01/nature-goes-court

* natures takes stand in climate litigation
* courtrooms worldwide battleground for Earth’s rights
* environment as plaintiff demanding justice/accountability
* benefits humanity

India's top court: Pollution-free environment a fundamental right
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pollution-free-environment-fundamental-right-indias-top-court-says-2024-10-23

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#LegalPerson #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver #EnvironmentalPersonhood
#Indigenous #autonomy

Nature Goes to Court

Nature is taking the stand as courtrooms worldwide become battlegrounds for Earth’s rights. The rise in climate litigation shows how the environment can take centre stage as a plaintiff, demanding justice and accountability, benefiting us all. On 23 October 2024, India’s Supreme Court declared a pollution-free environment a fundamental right, underscoring the government’s duty to …

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 13, 2025

Indigenous tribe regaining control of ancestral lands while fighting climate change
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112899057042227042

* f. dismantling dams to restoring land rights, Yurok tribe better able to protect their environment
* note also Magpie River (legal personhood)
* ...

#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #LegalPerson #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver #EnvironmentalPersonhood
#Indigenous #autonomy

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 13, 2025

[thread] Environmental personhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_personhood

* legal concept which designates certain environmental entities the status of a legal person
* assigns to these entities, rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities & legal liability of a legal person
* in court, a "guardian" can act on the entity's behalf to protect it
* may recognize Indigenous relationships to natural entities e.g. rivers

#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #LegalPerson #EnvironmentalPersonhood #indigenous

Environmental personhood - Wikipedia