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An image related to the Rights of Nature movement, which advocates for legal personhood and inherent rights for ecosystems and natural entities.
The Rights of Nature movement is a growing global legal and philosophical framework that recognizes ecosystems, rivers, forests, and other natural entities as having inherent rights to exist, thrive, and regenerate. Rather than treating nature as property to be exploited, this movement reframes the relationship between human societies and the natural world by granting legal standing to nature itself. Pioneered in countries like Ecuador (which enshrined Rights of Nature in its constitution in 2008) and New Zealand (which granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River), the movement draws on indigenous wisdom traditions that have long understood the interconnectedness and sacred nature of all living systems.