We Believe Protecting Nature Starts By Protecting The People Who Defend Her.
This means our approach to climate action is rooted in environmental justice and rights.
This is climate action through rights, not offsets or technocratic fixes. Protecting Indigenous rights and territories is one of the most effective and underfunded climate solutions available today. Advancing the Rights of Nature helps strengthen this approach by providing additional tools to protect ecosystems at their source.
Our Mision
We are a non-profit organization working with Indigenous communities environmental and frontline defenders to protect their territories and ecosystems, while advancing legal and advocacy strategies that recognize the rights of nature and challenge extractive systems. By supporting those who defend nature and strengthening community-led, regenerative ways of living, we address the root causes of ecological destruction and advance rights-based climate solutions that respect the interconnected rights of people and Nature and keep power in community hands.
How We Do It
By partnering with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to protect ecosystems, uphold their rights, and co-design alternatives to extractive development that respect the rights of Nature in practice. We do this through advocacy, campaigning, legal strategies, capacity building and community-led projects that hat benefit both people and the planet.
Every Action We Undertake Is Grounded In
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Active Projects
Rights & Roots ONG
We are a women-led, youth-led organisation based in Spain, acting as a regional alliance bridging Latin America and Europe. We partner with Indigenous Peoples, frontline defenders, and local communities facing environmental and climate injustices, co-designing initiatives that strengthen territorial rights, environmental justice and stewardship.
Youth-led territorial guardianship and community-based ecotourism in Brazil
Working with the Borari community in the Caribbean Amazon to lead territorial surveillance, advance the demarcation of ancestral lands, and develop community-led ecotourism that strengthens economic autonomy while protecting nature, culture, and territory.
Ocean rights advocacy in Spain
Supporting communities around the Mar Menor through storytelling and advocacy to advance ocean rights in Spain, amplify local voices, and strengthen protection for marine ecosystems.
Collaborators
«WE RECOGNIZE THAT ECOSYSTEMS ARE NOT MERELY RESOURCES TO BE MANAGED BUT LIVING ENTITIES WHOSE PROTECTION IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNITY OF THE PEOPLES WHO STEWARD THEM»
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Help Protect What Protects Us
Indigenous territorial protection is one of the most effective climate mitigation and adaptation strategies globally and one of the most underfunded. We envision a world where peoples and Nature´s rights are safeguarded, respected and central to climate solutions