“The rights of nature are the rights of Ireland, the rights of the island herself.” (John Spillane)
In 2023, the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss recommended that substantive and procedural Rights of Nature be incorporated in Bunreacht na hÉireann [the Irish Constitution] to protect biodiversity.
We support the Citizens’ Assembly recommendation, and call upon the Irish Parliament and Government to hold a referendum of the people to amend the Constitution to secure the Rights of Nature.
(Your comments in support of giving the people of Ireland an opportunity to decide on the question of incorporating the Rights of Nature into the Irish Constitution will be passed on to the members of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action)
Use the ‘Reply’ box below to indicate your support and that of your organisation:
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to ensure that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated in the Irish Constitution, to halt further loss to our ecosystem and protect our valuable biodiversity.
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I fully support the Citizens Assembly recommendation that Substantial and Procedural Rights of Nature be incorporated into the Irish Constitution as a matter of urgency and justice. Let us be on the right side of history and an agent for global transformation before it is too late.
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RE-PEAT youth collective supports the Citizens’ Assembly recommendation, and call upon the Irish Parliament and Government to hold a referendum of the people to amend the Constitution to secure the Rights of Nature!
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I am over-seeing a small re-welding project in Co. Kilkenny & support the proposal that people of Ireland should have an opportunity to decide on the question of incorporating the Rights of Nature into the Irish Constitution
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to ensure that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated in the Irish Constitution, to halt further loss to our ecosystem and protect our valuable biodiversity.
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I fully support this proposal. The pillaging of our country and planet for profit cannot continue.
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I am an artist and lecturer and citizen of Ireland and I absolutely support the Citizens Assembly’s recommendation that the Rights of Nature be acknowledged and protected and that this should be enshrined into the Irish Constitution
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to include the Rights of Nature for the island of Ireland
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to ensure that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated in the Irish Constitution, to halt further loss to our ecosystem and protect our valuable biodiversity
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Anthropocentrism in Law is one of the main cause of the ecological and climate crisis. It is time to rethink our role within the wider community woven by relationships between species and ecosystems that support life and adjust our law and governance according to rules and limits of the Earth’s ecosystem. We can not survive without guaranteeing to other species and living systems their right to exist and thrive. Today, the necessity to recognize the inherent value of non human beings to solve the ecological crisis has been understood by many countries and municipalities who have recognized the rights of Nature in their constitution or local legislation. The rights of Nature allow to protect the ones of future generations, human and non-human.
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We are the Ark – (Acts of Restorative Kindness to the Earth) which has 21K members fully supports the rights of our shared kin, the water, the land, the air and all the creatures that make up the web of life.
There is no time for procrastination now, we have to do everything in our power to save our only home and give sovereignty back to the land so that she can reweave all the broken threads in this web of life that we are so utterly and hopelessly dependent upon.
We either step up for the earth now, or we will step off. -
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As a citizen of Ireland in the cross border area of Derry & Donegal I fully support the Citizens Assembly’s Position on Rights of Nature. I’m now using the #RightsofNature hashtag in all future social media posts on anything and everything about nature to increase awareness.
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Tipperary PPN fully supports the Citizen’s Assembly recommendation. The constitution needs a few amendments, this one included! To secure the Rights of Nature.
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I am Maria Estrella Sánchez Corchero, professor at the University of the Basque Country and expert in Ecological Economy of the UN Harmony With Nature program and I give very explicit support to the Irish Citizens Assembly in its process of achieving recognition of the rights of Nature and I make myself available to you for any action in which I can contribute value, knowledge or whatever you deem appropriate. Much encouragement
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Paola Arias Arévalo, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Colombia.
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Instituto Calliandra de Educação Integral e Ambiental recomenda a oportuna e necessária iniciativa desta Assembleia pelos Direitos da Natureza que juntos aos Direitos Humanos podem vir a curar as feridas da Mãe Terra.
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The All Island Gathering of Campaigners,Activists, Environmentalists,Communities and Individuals fully endorse a Rights of Nature recommendation that the constitution is amended to include this right.
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Cork One Future campaign supports this crucial recommendation to enshrine the natural world that supports humanity, and all life, in the Irish constitution.
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One Future Galway would like to endorse the Citizens call for the Rights of Nature. This is a vital movement which could help mend our broken relationship with nature.
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Louise O’Neill Vance for Plastic free Kinvara supports the Citizen’s Assembly recommendation. It’s time for Ireland to lead.
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Kinvara Climate Action Galway fully support Rights of Nature , and a referendum for thees rights to be included in the constitution, as recommended by the Citizen’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss
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The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), and in particular its European hub, supports the Citizen’s Assembly recommendation.
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The International Centre for Water and Transdisciplinarity (CIRAT), a Brazilian civil society organization, fully supports the rights of nature and its actions for conservation and ecosystemic well-being.
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Marianne Beasley, Legal Consultant, Educator for Sustainable Development & The Law, Environmentalist and Founder of North Kerry Environmental Forum in 2009.
I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to ensure that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated in the Irish Constitution, to halt further loss to our ecosystem and protect our valuable biodiversity.
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The Treegang, Kinvara, supports the call of the Citizens’ Assembly for a referendum on including the Rights of Nature in Bunreacht na hÉireann.
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The Center for Environmental Living & Training, CELT, supports the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss recommendations and specifically the recommendation for the Irish Government to hold a referendum of the people to amend the Constitution to secure the Rights of Nature.
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Cultivate, the Sustainable Ireland coop support the Citizen’s Assembly recommendation to secure the Rights of Nature.
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The rights to protect nature are vital to sustaining our state and communities. Kinvara Tidy towns fully support legislation to support this fundamental inclusion in our constitution.
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It´s a pleasure as an expert in Latin America of the United Nations Harmony with Nature Programme to support the recommendation of the Citizens’ Assembly to ensure that the Rights of Nature are incorporated into the Irish Constitution.
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss to ensure that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated into the Irish Constitution.
Katie Holten
Artist, activist, author and co-founder of Friends of Ardee Bog
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I fully support the Citizen’s Assembly recommendation to incorporate substantive rights of nature into the Irish constitution.
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity Loss to enshrine the Rights of Nature in Ireland’s Constitution.
Annette Vaucanson Kelly – Writer & Eco-activist, Green Greystones
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I support recommendations by the Citizen’s Assembly to incorporate the Rights of Nature into the Irish Constitution as a matter of urgency!!
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I wholeheartedly support the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss’s recommendation that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated into the Irish Constitution.
Dillon Cohen
Artist and concerned citizen -
I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to include the Rights of Nature for the island of Ireland
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I support the recommendations of the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity
Carmel Duffy
Life-long child of nature, supporter of Mother Earth -
“We are the Earth that carries us”
Thich Nhat Hanh.Mindfulness Ireland and the Plum Village engaged community of practice support wholeheartedly support our citizens call for the Rights for Nature in Ireland.
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Ireland is among the very most nature-trashed places on Earth. In an age of ecological and climate collapse, we simply cannot allow this situation to worsen, or even persist. Full constitutional rights for Irish Nature NOW!! Eoghan Daltun
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It’s not about ‘giving’ rights to nature on and around this Island. Nature fundamentally, inherently and intrinsically has rights by virtue of existing. This constitution change is about no longer denying or stomping over those rights in the pursuit of ‘development’ or ‘growth. Ireland should officially recognise the rights, and implement the inferred protections arising from those rights, of the very life blood of this Island and all the people on it – nature, wildlife, habitats and species. As it is now, without healthy seas, rivers, forests, bog and wetland, Ireland is a pale imitation of what is could and should be.
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Our grandchildren are entitled to enjoy the same birdsongs, flowers and wildness that we do. We are literally their last hope and I want you to take the correct decision for them
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I fully support the recommendations of the Citizen’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss to incorporate the Rights of Nature into the Irish Constitution.
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to include the Rights of Nature for the island of Ireland
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Nature is Home. We are a part of Nature, not apart from Nature. I fully support the Rights of Nature, and the recommendation by the Citizen’s Assembly that the Irish Government hold a referendum to include these Rights in the Irish Constitution.
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I fully support the Citizens Assembly recommendations on the Rights of Nature, urgently needed now in order to restore our care and understanding of our interbeing, and of our ability to live in harmony with nature.
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I fully support the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly to ensure that substantive and procedural ‘Rights of Nature’ be incorporated in the Irish Constitution, to halt further loss to our ecosystem and protect our valuable biodiversity.
Helen O’Leary
artist
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Ireland should be leading the way on a rapid ecological transition towards a liveable future, which relies on biodiversity.
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Ireland should be leading the way when it comes to the rapid transitions that are required (to agriculture in particular) to have a liveable future — which relies on biodiversity and divesting from animal agriculture (and, of course, fossil fuels). The Citizens’ Assembly demonstrated the aspirations of the people of Ireland towards the same.
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A potentially very significant landmark for Ireland – and the whole of Europe – when the long overdue and long buried inherent rights of the natural world are brought into the light. It marks a further shift from outdated legal and cultural frameworks championing property and ownership over the rights of ‘ordinary’ humans and the rest of the natural world. To see ourselves as a part of an overall ecosystem is to acknowledge the reality; to view ourselves as over and above this ecosystem is not just arrogant but false and is leading to our own destruction -with which we’re bringing down all living beings who share this planet with us.
Emma Karran (Future Proof Clare)
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I support the recommendation by the Citizens Assembly to incorporate the “Rights of Nature” into the Irish Constitution.
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There is no other way forwards. I offer my full support for this Call for the Rights Of Nature. Thank you to all supporters.
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We fully support the Citizen’s Assembly recommendation to incorporate substantive rights of nature into the Irish constitution.
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I support the recommendations of the citizen’s assembly to protect the rights of nature. The time is now to change our ways to protect our ecosystem and biodiversity.
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I fully support the Citizen’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss’s recommendation to ensure the Rights of Nature by holding a referendum of the people to amend the Irish constitution to secure the Rights of Nature.
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