Summary
In 2018, the town council of Frome, England attempted to pass a bylaw giving the Frome River and the Rodden Meadow rights and legal personhood. The town council as well as the non-profit Friends of the River Frome were to act as guardians of the river and meadow. “The human and natural communities of Frome have the right to access a sustainable supply of clean and unpolluted water drawn from natural water cycles,” the bylaw says. “Rodden Meadow shall have the right to exist, thrive, regenerate, and evolve, and the right to restoration to high or good ecological status.” However, the bylaw was turned down in 2020.
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Suggested Citation:
Kauffman, Craig, Catherine Haas, Alex Putzer, Shrishtee Bajpai, Kelsey Leonard, Elizabeth Macpherson, Pamela Martin, Alessandro Pelizzon & Linda Sheehan. Eco Jurisprudence Monitor. V2. 2025. Distributed by the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor.https://ecojurisprudence.org/initiatives/frome-river-and-rodden-meadow/.
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