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

#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateLitigation
#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 …

Inter Press Service
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

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29, 2024

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

* From dismantling dams to restoring land rights, Yurok tribe are better able to protect their environment

#Indigenous #autonomy #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #California #Klamath #environmentalism #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 3, 2024

Indigenous tribe regaining control of ancestral lands while fighting climate change
From dismantling dams to restoring land rights, Yurok tribe are better able to protect their environment
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/03/an-indigenous-tribe-is-regaining-control-of-its-ancestral-lands-while-fighting-climate-change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurok

Note also: Magpie River: Legal personhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_River_(Quebec)#Legal_personhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_River_(Ontario)#Legal_person
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/this-pristine-canadian-river-has-legal-personhood-a-new-approach-to-conserving-nature-1.7100728

#Indigenous #autonomy #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #California #Klamath #environmentalism #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver

An Indigenous tribe is regaining control of its ancestral lands while fighting climate change

From dismantling dams to restoring land rights, The Yurok tribe are better able to protect their environment

Salon.com