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Together with the Environmental Law Foundation, we have published a new practical guide for local communities and local authorities to recognise their local rivers’ rights. The guide has been written as a response to rising interest from grassroots community groups and local authorities who want to recognise the inherent rights of their local rivers.
This reframing of our relationship with rivers reflects a wish to recognise rivers as more than mere features in our landscape, acknowledging that they carry important ecosystems and crucial water for our society and also reflects a want to protect rivers and drive restoration and regeneration.
Read more about:
- The movement to recognise rights of rivers in England and globally;
- How rivers could be given legal personhood in England in the future;
- What actions local communities and local authorities can take; and
- How rivers can be represented.
For local councillors and officers and others who want to learn more about rights of rivers from other local councillors and people involved in the growing movement, join Matrix Chambers for a free practical session about rights of nature. Sign up here.
For more information about rights of nature and the guide generally, contact Emily Julier and Yasmin Waljee OBE (Hogan Lovells) and Emma Montlake (Environmental Law Foundation).