Exploring Environmental Law, Activism, and the Rights of Nature

Lawyers for Nature stands in firm opposition to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 in its current form. While we acknowledge the government's stated aim to streamline development and enhance environmental outcomes, the Bill's current provisions risk undermining existing environmental protections, democratic processes, and the fundamental rights of nature itself.

In April 2022, the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss (“The Assembly”) held its inaugural meeting in Dublin Castle. Since then, the Assembly, which is made up of 99 randomly-selected members of the public and an independent Chairperson, has been examining how the state can improve its response to biodiversity loss. On completion of its work later this year, the Assembly will make a number of recommendations to the Government in this regard.

Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt group (SGMGB) are seeking pro bono legal representation at the Places for Everyone (P4E) Examination in Public (EiP) Hearings.

Lawyers for Nature is proud to be associated with UKELA (UK Environmental Law Association), the leading membership organisation for anyone interested in environmental law.

Analysis of the most recent report published by the IPCC.

We need ‘wild lawyers’, ‘lawyers for nature’ or ‘earth lawyers’: those committed to enacting and upholding the Rights of Nature through whatever legal avenues and means that are available.

With the end of the summer, we thought we would update you on some of what we have been up to so far this year.

LFN Researcher Alex May had a great time attending the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland's Environmental Rights Summit yesterday. He delivered a workshop about what Rights of Nature are, developments around the world, and how we might advance them in the UK.