Brontie Maria Ansell

Mostly now on bluesky:

member of @lawfornature

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

2/ Lawyers like @LawForNature @paulpowlesland have been calling for nature to be granted rights for years, to better defend habitats and species from destruction.

A Rights of Nature Act would transform how we currently relate to nature as mere 'property' or a 'resource'.

[Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature - GARN @garnglobal]

🇬🇧 🌱 The #RightsofNature movement is taking root in UK, even in a not-so-optimal legal and political context, through a tight-knit network and growing local and national campaigns - all explored in this article by @paulpowlesland & @AlexJFMaizy.

https://t.co/HaLbuRq17q

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@Tom_H_Oliver Great news Tom!!

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@skdh This is quite shocking. You’re a physicist with 150k followers. Don’t you think you have a responsibility on social media to actually read something before you make a comment? No where does it say what you’re suggesting. It’s to reinstate an old definition that includes humans.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

Brilliant article @Tom_H_Oliver very thoughtful. Thanks for write up.

[Tom Oliver @Tom_H_Oliver]

A new campaign is lobbying dictionaries to change the definition of the word ‘nature’. But is this a good idea? My reflections on the #WeareNature campaign led by @LawForNature What are your thoughts?...
https://t.co/KiGbijC2X5

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

Great write up on our #wearenature campaign by our Jessie Mond Wedd!

[Lawyers for Nature @LawForNature]

You may have seen the #WeAreNature campaign we launched earlier this week!

There's more detail in this blog post: Jessie Mond Wedd tells us more about how the campaign started, why definitions matter, and the negotiations with the OED.

https://t.co/9L8KDGWsSs

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@IrishRainforest @yvonneredmond Monumental case of self harm isn’t it.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@IrishRainforest @yvonneredmond You can talk about particular species doing serious destruction to nature, people do this regularly with deer and badger for example. At no point would we say those species are not a part of nature. We might talk about balance there for eg though.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@IrishRainforest @yvonneredmond I’m so intrigued by this point of view! You can break your own bones, you can pull your own hair out, you can bite all your nails off. Those are all still part of you…and you’re destroying them.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@IrishRainforest Our blog is here for you:
https://t.co/WpIU6RN0op

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@IrishRainforest @IrishRainforest thanks for engaging with our work. We wrote up our research findings in this blog, I’d love you to take a look and then it would be great to have a conversation with you? Please do get in touch with me via DM here or our website. Thnx

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@iancbeavis @IrishRainforest @LawForNature Take a look at all our work on the campaign at https://t.co/QHDCq0GZvm where you can read our open letter that details the historic and current usage.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@iancbeavis @IrishRainforest We’re in complete agreement @iancbeavis @LawForNature we spent 6 months researching the etymology of the word and collating evidence of current usage for the OED. When you get a mo look at our work and you’ll see that we’ve already had a breakthrough on this before launch.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@ChrisGPackham @WEARENATURE Thank you for supporting our work at Lawyers for Nature Chris @LawForNature

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@CarolineLucas Thank you Caroline!

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

So proud that our team (led by Jessie Mond-Wedd) are behind this important campaign.

Until we understand the interdependency of all life (including ours) on nature we will continue on a heartbreaking path.

Humans are a part of nature.

[Lawyers for Nature @LawForNature]

Announcing our new campaign: #WeAreNature, joint with Frieda Gormley and Javvy Royle of House of Hackney.

Dictionary definitions treat nature as separate from humans, but we think humans are part of Nature. We want to change that. See more and sign:

https://t.co/XxLS9WoOtu

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

@AaronBastani @paulpowlesland Such kind words @AaronBastani
I have the joy of Paul as my co director at Lawyers for Nature @LawForNature ❤️

Please consider whether you are able to support our definition of Nature campaign that launched today! https://t.co/QHDCq0GZvm Thanks.

[Brontie Maria Ansell @BrontieMaria]

Just a quick note to say I’m going to move over to Bluesky as much as possible. I now find this space chaotic and uninteresting. Most of my favourite voices have gone silent. This is me over there, it seems a lot better so far. https://t.co/x0IKZYJAuS

[Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 @BrianMcHugh2011]

What if nature had rights?

What do we owe the earth?

'This is a Forest' exhibition runs in #Leeds until the end of Nov.

@LEEDS_2023
@LeedsCC_News
@LiveTheModaLife

With special thanks to @BrontieMaria
@LawForNature
@YorksBylines

https://t.co/Fq4B0580pX

[Sadhbh O' Neill 🍉🌹 @SadhbhO]

In today's @IrishTimes I outline the case for a constitutional right to a clean environment and rights for nature https://t.co/s0BCDk5bbR