Rights of Nature Project
'I Came to Breathe'
Installation at Drumboe Woods
An environmental art project celebrating 'Drumboe Woods', a vital public and ecological space for the communities of Stranorlar and Ballybofey.Developed over a series of workshops and interventions with the Crossroads Youth Project, completed works are being installed in the woods during the festival. “I Came to Breathe Art Installation at Drumboe Woods references the complex communication systems between trees and fungi , the wood wide web and how trees help us by filtering the air. They are the lungs of the planet and our life support system.”
“I experienced the forest as an entwined place, where all the trees are interdependent….a cathedral that was one, with all of its disciples & pews.”
– Suzanne Simard
“The destruction of the Earth is due in part to a failure of the imagination, or to it’s eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters.”
– Rebecca Solnit
Commissioned by Earagail Arts Festival
Rights of Nature Advances Worldwide!
2021 Highlights
Ireland: Donegal County Council became the first council area in the Republic of Ireland to recognize the Rights of Nature.
Brazil: Lawyers and researchers filed a lawsuit in Florianópolis on behalf of local organizations. It seeks the recognition of the lagoon Lagoa da Conceição as a rights-bearing entity.
Chile: Commission on Environment and Rights of Nature established in Constitutional Convention
Ecuador: The Constitutional Court used the constitutional provision on the Rights of Nature to safeguard Los Cedros protected forest from mining concessions
France: Corsican citizens recognized the rights of the Tavignanu River, a first in France.
México: Constitutional amendment in the State of Oaxaca recognizing Nature as a collective entity subject to rights; Mexican Congress voted to include Rights of Nature in their Magna Carta
Perú: A coalition of international organizations filed an Amicus Curiae brief requesting the recognition of the inherent rights of the Marañón River
Uganda: Indigenous Bagungu communities pioneered legislation to protect sacred natural sites and recognize the customary laws of the Bagungu People
N. Ireland. Derry City and Strabane and Fermanagh and Omagh Councils in Northern Ireland passed motions to recognize Rights of Nature
US: White Earth Nation of Ojibwe is suing the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in tribal court on behalf of wild rice; in Colorado, the Town of Crestone became the world’s first International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) community to acknowledge the Rights of Nature, Boulder Creek, Nederland became the first community to pass a Rights of Nature resolution, and the Ridgway town council approved a resolution to recognize the rights of the Uncompahgre River
'I Came to Breathe'
Installation at Drumboe Woods
An environmental art project celebrating 'Drumboe Woods', a vital public and ecological space for the communities of Stranorlar and Ballybofey.Developed over a series of workshops and interventions with the Crossroads Youth Project, completed works are being installed in the woods during the festival. “I Came to Breathe Art Installation at Drumboe Woods references the complex communication systems between trees and fungi , the wood wide web and how trees help us by filtering the air. They are the lungs of the planet and our life support system.”
“I experienced the forest as an entwined place, where all the trees are interdependent….a cathedral that was one, with all of its disciples & pews.”
– Suzanne Simard
“The destruction of the Earth is due in part to a failure of the imagination, or to it’s eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters.”
– Rebecca Solnit
Commissioned by Earagail Arts Festival
Rights of Nature Advances Worldwide!
2021 Highlights
Ireland: Donegal County Council became the first council area in the Republic of Ireland to recognize the Rights of Nature.
Brazil: Lawyers and researchers filed a lawsuit in Florianópolis on behalf of local organizations. It seeks the recognition of the lagoon Lagoa da Conceição as a rights-bearing entity.
Chile: Commission on Environment and Rights of Nature established in Constitutional Convention
Ecuador: The Constitutional Court used the constitutional provision on the Rights of Nature to safeguard Los Cedros protected forest from mining concessions
France: Corsican citizens recognized the rights of the Tavignanu River, a first in France.
México: Constitutional amendment in the State of Oaxaca recognizing Nature as a collective entity subject to rights; Mexican Congress voted to include Rights of Nature in their Magna Carta
Perú: A coalition of international organizations filed an Amicus Curiae brief requesting the recognition of the inherent rights of the Marañón River
Uganda: Indigenous Bagungu communities pioneered legislation to protect sacred natural sites and recognize the customary laws of the Bagungu People
N. Ireland. Derry City and Strabane and Fermanagh and Omagh Councils in Northern Ireland passed motions to recognize Rights of Nature
US: White Earth Nation of Ojibwe is suing the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in tribal court on behalf of wild rice; in Colorado, the Town of Crestone became the world’s first International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) community to acknowledge the Rights of Nature, Boulder Creek, Nederland became the first community to pass a Rights of Nature resolution, and the Ridgway town council approved a resolution to recognize the rights of the Uncompahgre River