#268: Nature has rights - or not...

Another new low from the UK government from a week or so ago, which I've just got round to posting here... there've been quite a few other related stories as well.

This Guardian article has been retweeted a number of times over the last few days, with the same sort of response from a great many environmental organisations and campaigners.

“It’s paradoxical because it recognises rights for non-human entities like corporations but denies them to non-human living beings. It’s contradictory because, while rhetorically acknowledging different cultures and Indigenous worldviews, it nevertheless imposes the western understanding of rights and law,”

Robert MacFarlane has written on the fact that rivers were recognised as being a living thing, and Patrick Barkham has also written for The Guardian on this theme.

#259: UN and Biodiversity

This is well worth reading.

"Nature loss and ecosystem collapse pose significant risks to businesses, given that over half of the world’s total GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature"

learn about the threat businesses pose to nature via @wef https://t.co/6LyJhHe0XT pic.twitter.com/kCsqLCbtmc

— UN Biodiversity (@UNBiodiversity) March 10, 2024

#157: World Soil Day - 5th December

World Soil Day is on the 5th of December

This is a day designated by the United Nations.

Soils are where food begins.

#82: UN Biodiversity

The United Nations Biodiversity feed is a useful one to follow. We will be producing a list of useful Twitter / X feeds to follow as part of the resources that are created in due course.

Healthy soil is vital for:
🌧️ Climate regulation
🌱 Growing food, fibre & fuel
🌼 #Biodiversity
and more!

But our soils are at risk; we need to work to restore degraded land and support healthy #soils to meet the current & future demand for food.

Via @FAOclimate pic.twitter.com/mVJrTG85eS

— UN Biodiversity (@UNBiodiversity) August 12, 2023