Our Ballot Measure secures the Rights of Nature for Lane County Watersheds. Here's more information on the Rights of Nature and what it means....
What would it mean for rivers, forests, and animals to have legal rights? A global movement is rethinking law’s relationship to nature.
Western political and legal systems are founded on human exceptionalism: the idea that we stand apart from, with dominion over, the rest of nature. This has facilitated rampant environmental destruction. But the rights of nature (RoN) movement
challenges this exceptionalism through a legal and cultural reimagining of how we relate to non-human (or more-than-human) nature. RoN refers to the practice of extending legal rights to non-humans, from animals to rivers, forests, and other ecosystems. RoN combine Western rights discourse with indigenous-inflected beliefs around animism and interspecies kinship.