OUR WORK
A Movement Built on Two Fronts
Real, lasting change for Nature requires more than good science or good intentions alone. It requires both evidence and law, moving together. That's why forNature works on two fronts at once: grassroots science that builds the evidence base, and grasstops diplomacy that turns evidence into enforceable rights.
Science in service of the movement
Science in service of the movement
We support scientists around the world whose research, informed by Indigenous and local knowledge, makes the case for the Rights of Nature: documenting decline, tracking ecosystems, and generating the kind of evidence that can't be argued away.
Through this partnership, we're also building educational tools, including a Rights of Nature Toolkit developed with the National Geographic Society Education team and Within Global, to help the next generation of advocates understand the Rights of Nature and start initiatives of their own.
And through the National Geographic Society's Impact Story Lab, we're producing short, targeted media pieces designed to inform and inspire the decision-makers who can act on what the science shows.
Building the legal framework, nation by nation
Working with multilateral institutions and national governments
Science alone doesn't change law. We work directly with governments and global institutions, including countries like Panama, to translate scientific evidence into legal recognition. This is the work behind Panama's national Rights of Nature law, and it's the work now driving a potential United Nations Universal Declaration on the Rights of Nature, which would be the first international recognition of Nature's inherent rights.