Each strand of our work reinforces the others: we develop novel legal frameworks, implement them in organisations, build grassroots movements to protect specific natural entities, train others to do the same, and connect all of it to the growing global Rights of Nature movement.
Bringing Nature into business, organisation and education settings to shift hearts, minds and dialogues.
We work with organisations across all sectors to assist them in bringing the voice of Nature into their governance structures.
We offer coaching and guidance to businesses and individuals interested in incorporating Nature into their governance structures, becoming a Nature director or trustee, or who simply want to learn more about the Rights of Nature.
Our team is available for panel talks, keynote speeches, events and interviews. Please contact us here to discuss booking our team for your next event.
We produce reports and publications on our work to inform others. We have a number of free resources available to enable others to do this work.
We use creativity and legal expertise to design and develop novel legal innovations. We work with people across sectors to identify interventions, and we respond to calls where others have ideas for this emergent world.
We were the main legal architects, alongside the Earth Law Centre, to appoint a Nature Director at Faith in Nature. We now work with organisations across all sectors to bring the voice of Nature into governance, ensuring Nature has a voice in decision-making, aligning purpose with ecological responsibility and opening organisations to new opportunities and richer conversations.
Lawyers for Nature was born out of grassroots activism, most notably the Sheffield Tree case in 2017, where community resistance to mass tree felling sparked a national conversation about the legal status and protection of trees. That campaign helped to shape our DNA, placing law in service of Nature. We have carried that ethos forward ever since, combining legal strategy with on the ground organising and work to protect Nature. Today, this lives through our director Paul Powlesland's long standing activism as a River Guardian on the River Roding, which has helped shape practical models of river guardianship grounded in lived experience.
The School of Nature Law will be launched publicly in Spring 2026, providing free courses and learning modules to advance the Rights of Nature and Nature Governance. We also provide in-person workshops to connect people involved in Nature Representation.
The Rights of Nature movement is growing around the world. We are focused on the connection, collaboration and visibility of this movement in the UK. We are the UK partner of the Ecojurisprudence Monitor and we co-founded the UK Rights of Nature Network in 2023, which has grown to over seventy members.
