Making the environment a legal entity!

For everyone interested in #ClimateChange and #Sustainability, this article is a must-read: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/great-barrier-reef-legal-rights-personhood#comments

I've learnt so much from Michelle Maloney and the team at Australian Earth Laws Alliance about the rights of nature and how, by granting ecosystems and natural objects status as legal persons or living entities, they can be protected more effectively.

As people, we benefit socially, economically and culturally from ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef, and natural objects such as rivers and mountains. But how do they benefit?

Giving them "legal personhood" would help to reframe public thinking - to both reduce the damage we cause them but also increase our responsibility for them.

Imagine the progress we could make by giving the environment a greater legal voice!

Image: Taken by Hannah Welch on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef in 2024; a trip which highlighted both its beauty and fragility, and increased our desire to help protect the wonderful world in which we live and work!