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France Universal Declaration of Tree Rights

France
National
Approved in 2019
Declaration
Personhood, Rights Of Nature
Trees
Plant
Déclaration Universelle des Droits de L'arbre and Delphine Batho, president of the French political environmentalist party Génération écologie
Civil Society

Summary

In 2018, the group Déclaration Universelle des Droits de L’arbre began a global petition to draft a universal declaration of tree rights. In 2019, the French National Assembly adopted its own version of the declaration spearheaded by Delphine Batho, president of the French political environmentalist party Génération écologie. The declaration recognized that a tree “should be respected throughout its life and have the right to develop and to reproduce freely, from its birth to its natural death, whether it be a town tree or a country tree. A tree should be considered as a subject of law, including when laws regarding human property are involved.”

Legal Document

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Universal Declaration of Tree Rights [PDF]

Additional Resources

To see other supplementary information related to this initiative, click the links below:

Article - France proclaims trees should have rights
Article - French National Assembly Moves Toward Giving Trees Rights As Sentient Beings

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