Wild law in action
These ideas are rapidly gaining acceptance throughout the world. The UK Environmental Law Association has held annual conferences on Wild Law since 2005 and the first Wild Law conference in Australia was held in 2009. In September 2006 the Catholic Universities of Barry and St Thomas established the first Earth Jurisprudence Centre in Florida (see www.earthjuris.org) and this approach is now taught in several African countries.
Our pioneering role in this field led us to being instructed by Nobel peace prize winner Professor Wangari Mathai's Green Belt movement to advise on how this approach could be incorporated into the draft Kenyan constitution. In October 2008, Ecuador became the first country to adopt a constitution that recognises rights for Nature as proposed in Wild Law. Cormac Cullinan has played a leading role in the development of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth which was proclaimed on 22 April 2010 by a People's World Conference in Bolivia attended by more than 32 000 people.
Download The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth here