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POV: when it’s getting close to the end of the tree planting season, you find some sad looking fruit trees on discount & decide you can definitely get a few more in before work…

17.03.2025 10:48 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition Defining nature as separate from people perpetuates troubled relationship with the natural world, say campaigners

#WeAreNature was featured in The Guardian!

www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

14.11.2024 16:27 👍 48 🔁 15 💬 12 📌 3
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Ring of Truth: A Case for Nature What happens when a 200 year old oak tree takes the Secretary of State for Climate and Ecological Breakdown to court?

What happens when a 200 year old oak tree takes the Secretary of State for Climate and Ecological Breakdown to court?

Lucy Neal shares her experience of staging a play to imagine a future in which a Rights of Nature court case takes place.

www.lawyersfornature.com/ring-of-truth/

14.11.2024 16:25 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Welcoming the River Wye at Herefordshire Council    SD 480p
Welcoming the River Wye at Herefordshire Council SD 480p YouTube video by Save The Wye

“It is only by once again regarding Nature as sacred and then putting that sacredness into practice in our legal, political, economic and social systems, that we have any chance of truly saving the river that you love.” - @paulpowlesland.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZRM...

14.11.2024 16:24 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Importance of River Wye recognised in Herefordshire Council ceremony - BBC News The Goddess of the Wye puppet accompanied the river water into the council offices.

"I believe that the Rights of Nature will be to the 21st Century what human rights were to the 20th Century and we're just at the start of that journey." - @paulpowlesland.bsky.social

Read about the ceremony held to recognise the importance of the River Wye here:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

14.11.2024 16:23 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0
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‘Trees have no legal status’: calls rise for stronger protection in UK against felling After destruction of the tree at Sycamore Gap, campaigners warn more must be done to protect country’s arboreal heritage

LFN co-director Brontie Ansell speaks out on behalf of trees in this wonderful article.

“Really, what we need is to have a reckoning of our relationship with trees, and how important they are to us [and] our continued success...”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

14.11.2024 16:21 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0