Council unanimously votes to give River Test personhood to protect right to ‘flow unimpeded’
Council unanimously votes to give River Test personhood to protect right to ‘flow unimpeded’
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In a landmark environmental move, the River Wye has become the first river in the UK to receive cross-border “rights of nature”…
Personhood for rivers is an absurd example of a grim trend: the politicising of our fundamental principles
We won a high court case against Shropshire council’s plans for a new polluting poultry unit. Now a precedent has been set, says…
A UK lawyer and environmental campaigner who spent days helping volunteers clean a neglected river is now facing the possibility…
Campaign group River Action have called the move a “welcome step” but said that increased salaries should be prevented
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
