This content series highlights a growing global movement: recognizing nature’s inherent rights to exist, thrive, and regenerate. These ideas are helping protect forests, rivers, wildlife, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and entire ecosystems by treating them as entities with legal and moral standing.
*Ecuador has been a pioneer in this approach, and as the country nears an important moment for the rights of nature, we’re partnering to raise awareness — through storytelling that celebrates the wild places and species that embody the Rights of Nature.
*This toolkit provides key messages, assets, and guidance to help you amplify the content and uplift the people and ecosystems at its heart.
From dream to global movement: Fifteen years ago, in 2010, GARN was born from a shared vision: to transform our legal systems and cultural worldview to recognize that Nature is not an object to exploit, but a living being with inherent rights.
This short film traces GARN’s journey, from Ecuador’s constitutional recognition of the Rights of Nature and the first Rights of Nature Tribunal, to a global movement driven by Indigenous wisdom and grassroots action.
Fifteen years later, the time has truly come. Together, we are reimagining our relationship with the Earth and shaping a future of justice, balance and life.
