Introduction to On the Rights of Nature with Pella Thiel
Release Date: 03/26/2025
4. Fire law and Caring for Country - Oliver Costello
On the Rights of Nature
Oliver Costello is a First Nations man from Bundjalung Country, now known as the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia. He has a diverse range of personal and professional expertise in culturally connected stewardship. Oliver has extensive experience working within Indigenous land and sea management and conservation and has been particularly interested in empowering Aboriginal perspectives on fire, water, as well as threatened and culturally significant species. He established the original Firesticks initiative which lead to the foundations of Firesticks Alliance and many other...
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3. Ecological jurisprudence as a quantum leap of law - Alessandro Pelizzon
On the Rights of Nature
Alessandro Pelizzon is associate professor in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. He has been part of the movement for rights of nature since its inception as a co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, the current chair of GARN’s Academic Hub, and an expert member of the UN Harmony with Nature programme. Alessandros classical education has led him to go far back in time to find the legal and philosophical roots of the norms and perceptions we navigate today, something he eloquently develops in his new book . The book is open...
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2. Mar Menor, first case of legal personhood in Europe - Eduardo Salazar Ortuño
On the Rights of Nature
Eduardo Salazar Ortuño is an environmental lawyer. Together with professor of law Teresa Vicente Giménez, he supported the salt water lagoon Mar Menor in Spain to attain legal personhood, as the first ecosystem in Europe. Eduardo has been practicing environmental law for 20 years. He is an expert on the Aarhus Convention, which empowers citizens and NGOs to defend the environment using access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Eduardo talks us through the process of getting the legal subjectivity of Mar Menor acknowledged and the importance of leadership from...
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1. An academics way to Rights of Nature - Craig M. Kauffman
On the Rights of Nature
Craig Kauffman is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and author of the book The Politics of Rights of Nature together with Pamela L Martin. Craig is one of the first academics to engage with the rights of nature. He gives an overview of how rights of nature frameworks started to emerge simultaneously in different parts of the world as a response from common pressures that communities were facing, where they experienced how the law did not protect them or their lands. Craig has been part of developing the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor (https://ecojurisprudence.org/), a...
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Introduction to On the Rights of Nature with Pella Thiel
On the Rights of Nature
Welcome to On the Rights of Nature! In this podcast we will explore the emergence of expanding legal frameworks to include nature; rivers, lakes, mountains and land. We will hear from academics, activists, lawyers and indigenous voices who are doing this profound work. Pella Thiel, ecologist, author and teacher living in Sweden, will be your host. In my view, Rights of nature is a necessary foundation for the transformation we find ourselves in, to orient towards regeneration and peace. With over a decade in this vibrant movement I am delighted for the opportunity to share the exciting...
info_outlineWelcome to On the Rights of Nature! In this podcast we will explore the emergence of expanding legal frameworks to include nature; rivers, lakes, mountains and land. We will hear from academics, activists, lawyers and indigenous voices who are doing this profound work.
Pella Thiel, ecologist, author and teacher living in Sweden, will be your host. In my view, Rights of nature is a necessary foundation for the transformation we find ourselves in, to orient towards regeneration and peace.
With over a decade in this vibrant movement I am delighted for the opportunity to share the exciting stores from the people who make rights of nature go from a good idea to a lived reality.
I could not do this without my brilliant producer Fredrik Arestav. A big thank you to Cosmo Sheldrake for the music.
Hope to see you along the way!