News release from Earth Law Center, For Nature, and The Leatherback Project Panama Passes National Rights of Nature Law. "Panama now joins a number of countries who recognize the Rights of Nature at the national level" earthlawcenter.salsalabs.org/panama_pr

BREAKING: We won!! Today at #UNEA5, governments agreed to open negotiations for a global, legally binding Global #PlasticsTreaty tackling the whole life cycle of plastic pollution! ✨ Now the fight truly begins!

Panama has enacted a law recognizing the legal rights of nature. Environmentalists are celebrating the legislation as a tool to fight against ecological destruction and the climate crisis. democracynow.org/2022/3/2/headl…

#WorldWildlifeDay is on 3 March! 🐾 🐷🐞🦊🦧🐯🐠🦒🐍🐸🐊🐳🦚🐙🐌 Join the celebration with World Wildlife Day and CITES and explore this year's theme — “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”. Learn more: wildlifeday.org #RecoverKeySpecies #WWD2022 #ForNature

🎉Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! 🗝️One key way to ✅#RecoverKeySpecies & ✅Achieve #EcosystemRestoration ➡️is to protect and restore #EcologicalConnectivity - by removing barriers to migration and restoring important habitat along migratory pathways. #WWD2022

Thank you so much to everyone who attended our event to celebrate World Wildlife Day! If you missed it don’t worry, you can catch up on everything that happened here: bit.ly/3hEeT9l. Let’s keep working together to #RecoverKeySpecies for Ecosystem Restoration! #WWD2022

All the more reason why we URGENTLY need to adopt #RightsOfNature everywhere!!

🇵🇦 After a brief hiatus, I'm excited to share my writing again! Here's BIG news out of #Panama, where I went #OnAssignment #OnExpedition with Callie Veelenturf and The Leatherback Project --> My latest 4 EcoWatch bit.ly/PanamaRON #wildlife #rightsofnature #nature #environment 🧵

11th Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature to commemorate Intl. Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2022. See Panel 2: Ecological Economics to to Protect Biodiversity in HwN. Programme bit.ly/381zUJP. Livestreaming on webtv.un.org

'The Rights of Nature is still under the radar, but its rapid ascension is undeniable': hilldavid.substack.com/p/the-rights-o…

"The UN is proud to support & uphold the fundamental human rights & dignity of all people – including LGBTIQ+ people. I call on everyone to join us to build a world of peace, inclusion, freedom & equality for all." -- António Guterres on #IDAHOBIT. un.org/press/en/2022/…

Quebec’s Magpie River is now more protected than ever before. In a first for Canada, the Magpie has been granted legal personhood and endowed with basic rights, joining a growing number of rivers to be granted these rights. Read the full story here➡️ bit.ly/3MvyXrW

¿Cómo el periodismo científico y los contenidos de opinión de nature ayudan a generar cambios?. Gracias @oceanorama 🐢 y la historia detrás de la 📷 de mi gran amiga y colega Callie Veelenturf nos permitió evidenciar cómo es trabajar con las 🐢 marinas y como todas las 🐢👩 ganamos

"Environmental destruction in parts of the Amazon is so complete that swathes of the rainforest have reached tipping point and might never be able to recover, a major study carried out by scientists and Indigenous organisations has found." theguardian.com/environment/20…

In Ecuador #ArtisanalFisheries over 200,000🦈 & 40,000 seaturtles are accidentally caught per year. Including endangered species like 🦈oceanic whitetip 🦈mako leatherback 🐢 hawksbill 🐢 Our project aims to reduce #bycatch & support livelihoods in these #fishing communities.

The UN Biodiversity #COP15 provides a global roadmap for the conservation, protection, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems for the next decade. Add your voice to the conversation by delivery of pledges to protect nature. csaynglobal.org/action-agenda/

#BetaDiversidad respalda la propuesta 37 de Panamá para incluir 54 especies de #tiburón en el Apéndice II de CITES Votar a favor de esta propuesta es votar por una verdadera #conservación de los #MaresDeMéxico, de su enorme #biodiversidad y de miles de pescadores ribereños 🇲🇽🇵🇦

🇵🇦🌿🎥 Did you know - Panama is one of the only nations in the world with a country-wide #RightsofNature law, and this legislation was just used to help shut down one of the largest copper mines in the world? Watch the CBS News report with Callie Veelenturf! cbsnews.com/news/legislati…

We would like to invite you to watch this video from our #2024nominee, Callie Veelenturf (Callie Veelenturf). As the founder of the Leatherback Foundation, she is talking about the accomplishments of their organization. Don't miss her work pages: The Leatherback Project @RightsForNature