Nature’s Rights is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation advancing law for a living world. We steward the Integrated Rights Framework — a world-first law, policy and governance architecture originated by our founder Mumta Ito and developed through more than a decade of legal research, stakeholder engagement and governance innovation.

The Framework recognises Nature as a rights-bearing subject and as the living foundation of human life, society and the economy. It moves beyond treating Nature, people and economy as competing interests, and instead restructures their legal relationship: Nature’s rights are foundational, human rights are protected within the ecological conditions necessary for life, and economic, corporate and property rights operate within and in service to both.

Our flagship pathway is the UK Nature’s Rights Bill — the first legislative translation of the Integrated Rights Framework and the first Nature’s Rights Bill to enter the UK parliamentary process. The Bill would recognise Nature as a legal subject,  establish substantive rights and a duty of care towards Nature, restructure the hierarchy of rights, integrate Nature’s rights into public and private decision-making, and create governance, participation, dispute resolution and enforcement mechanisms for implementation.

We also advance the EU Nature’s Rights Charter pathway and practical implementation through education, policy development, placed based pilots, regenerative governance tools and cross-sector collaboration. 

Our work is for lawmakers, legal professionals, civil servants, NGOs, charities, funders, local councils, business and governance leaders, cultural voices and citizens who understand that ecological breakdown is not only an environmental crisis. It is a legal and governance design failure.

Nature’s rights are not against human rights or economic wellbeing. They are the foundation that makes both possible.

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