Summary
In 2021, Councillor O’Neill from the Derry and Strabane District Council in Ireland made a motion for Council to “hold two community workshops and work with the local community and stakeholders to draw up a Declaration for the Rights of Nature for the Council area to be brought back before Council for adoption.” The motion passed and will collaborate with civil society for the next 6 months “to explore what rights of nature mean for the people and the economies of the region and investigate how rights of nature could be expressed in community plans.”