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Thijs Middeldorp

Thijs Middeldorp (1978) is co-owner of campaign and design agency Partizan Publik, director of the Amsterdam 4 and 5 May committee, curator of the Groningen Atelier aan de Middendijk, co-founder of energy cooperative Amsterdam Energie and board member of various cultural organizations.

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Robert Rient

Robert Rient initiated the recognition of the Odra River as a legal person and established the Odra Tribe. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Odra Person Foundation, a Member of the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, Save the Rivers Coalition, and Literary Union Association. He also acts as…

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Franco Nicoletti

Franco Nicoletti was born in Crocetta del Montello, on the very edge of the Grave di Ciano, an area which was a sort of natural playground for him and for a lot of his mates. After obtaining the Liceo Scientificio diploma, he started his career, first as an employee and then as an entrepreneur in…

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Aleksandra Velimanović

Aleksandra Velimanović, master in the field of integrated management of natural resources, has been in the civil sector for 25 years, and since 2006 one of the founders and members of the citizens’ association “NIMBUS” from Loznica.

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Marijana Lemm

Marijana is one of the co-founders of Sentient, with a background in environmental activism, regenerative agriculture, and the establishment of Montenegro’s first eco yoga retreat.

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Teresa Conesa

Teresa Conesa is part of the citizen movement Banderas Negras, later constituted as an association Alianza Mar Menor ( AMARME ) and a member of the promoters of the ILP of the Mar Menor.

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Roberta Bosu

Roberta Bosu is a strategist, storyteller, and environmental advocate with extensive experience driving transformative change across environmental, economic, and political sectors. As Global Campaign Lead for Antarctic Rights and founder of Re.vert Studio, she creates impactful narratives that inspire action for planetary protection. Roberta serves as a European Climate Pact Ambassador for the European Commission,…

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Stefanie Zoche

Stefanie Zoche, artist and initiator of Loisachbündnis, was born on the banks of the Isar. She studied fine art on the Tiber, the Têt, and the Thames, lived by the Tagus; in her artistic work, she has mostly dealt with ecological issues such as the climate crisis, resources, and extractivism (https://www.haubitz-zoche.de); in her installations and…

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Li An Phoa

Li An Phoa (1980) is the founder of the Drinkable Rivers movement. Over the past ten years, she has walked 21,000 kilometres along rivers; the Meuse river walk was the subject of the documentary Long Walk for Drinkable Rivers. She is the author of the book ‘Drinkable Rivers: How the River Becomes My Teacher’.

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Natasha Padbury

Natasha Padbury is the Sustainability Manager at the Depot cinema, with 15 years of experience coordinating community, cultural, health and wellbeing projects.

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Claus Biegert

Claus Biegert, author, filmmaker, activist and initiator of Loisachbündnis, was born at Lake Staffelsee. He currently lives on the banks of the Ach. Since 1973, he has conducted research among indigenous peoples of North America, writing books and creating radio programmes about the threats posed to indigenous peoples by nuclear technologies, uranium mining, nuclear weapons…

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Christine Sponholz-van Leeuwenstijn

Christine Sponholz-van Leeuwenstijn is a legal translator and student of Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC). She has dedicated her work as a translator to translating academic, journalistic, and non-fiction texts for the German-speaking markets that challenge anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism and offer alternative approaches to help navigate the socio-ecological challenges of our time. Christine is currently…

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Matthew Bird

Matthew Bird is a Climate and Sustainability professional with 25 years of experience at local authorities and other community organisations and as a District and Town Councillor.

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Jetske Verhoeven

Jetske Verhoeven is a Dutch visual artist and writer whose work deepens the connection between humans and the natural world. Through site-specific events, performances, and participatory projects, she explores a shift in awareness—from seeing ourselves as separate from nature to recognising ourselves as integral co-players within it. She is the founder of the organisation Zachtivist…

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Ingrid de Vries

Ingrid de Vries (1972) worked for a chemical company at the decision support and control department, after graduating at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In between calculating cost prices, she launched a waste management project. She often found herself at the wastewater treatment plant, talking with the operator about how the bacteria were “eating” the chemical…

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Francesco Martone

Francesco Martone is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and co-founder of the artistic research platform A4CArtsforthecommons.

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Greet Brauwers & Raf Custers

Greet Brauwers is a researcher, filmmaker, and artist based in Brussels. After her studies, she worked in the media, combining her journalistic work with a socio-artistic practice, exploring the possibilities of engaged visual and narrative practices, setting up audiovisual projects, and documentary filmmaking. Since 2016, she has connected with artistic practice. With Raf Custers, they…

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Natalia Llorente Nosti

Natalia Llorente Nosti is a mother, biologist, technical translator and socio-environmental consultant. Throughout her professional career she has focused on the management of water resources and river ecosystems.

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Anna Daneri

Anna Daneri is an independent curator. She curated the exhibition "Nothing is lost. Art and Matter in Transformation" (2022–2022) with Lorenzo Giusti at GAMeC - Bergamo. She was one of the founders of Peep-Hole, Milan.

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Karmit EvenZur

Karmit is an artist, facilitator and cultural manager whose practice revolves around the dynamic interactions between humans and the non-human world. With deep attentiveness to subtle narratives of people and land, she fabulates social practices that invite us to renew our connection to, as well as re-imagine our role as custodians of the places we…

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Andrea Muehlebach

Andrea Muehlebach is a Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of Bremen. She is the author of “A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe” and is currently involved in a book-length project on the rights of nature movement and its relation to what many proponents call “Earth Law.” Here, she…

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Anna Chmiel

Anna Chmiel is a painter, multimedia artist, and key member of the Rivers Sisters collective from 2019. She seamlessly combines art with activism for nature, especially rivers.

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Rosa Jijón

Rosa Jijón is an artist, activist and cultural mediator, former director of the CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito), CAC. She has participated in various international exhibitions.

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Emma Montlake

Emma Montlake is the Director of Casework at Environmental Law Foundation and the grassroots legal support lead with a focus on the Rights of River.

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Alex Putzer

Alex researches the theory, analysis, and implementation of rights of nature in cities. As a UN Harmony with Nature Expert and member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, he co-developed the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, the world’s leading database tracking rights of nature. He holds a PhD from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and has been a…

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Amalia Rossi

Born in Pavia and raised in the same city, in the Borgo Ticino district, along the banks of the Ticino “blue river”, Amalia Rossi is a Fellow Researcher at THE NEW INSTITUTE – Center for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a member of the working team of the Venice…

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Vinny Jones

Vinny's practice of sensory scenography is based on the recognition that it is through the whole sensing body that we perceive, experience, and are connected in the world.

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Xandra van der Eijk

Xandra van der Eijk is a Dutch artist and researcher, interested in the fluid, networked actors that constitute waterbodies. Using a distinct artistic methodology, they provide material experience-driven approaches to imagining and understanding ecological networks. In 2019, Xandra founded and developed the first MA in ecological art in the Netherlands at Avans University of Applied…

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Zoe Lujic

Zoe Lujic is a rights of Nature advocate and founder of Earth Thrive, international organisation working on ensuring respect & establishment or Rights of Nature in the Balkans & Mediterranean bioregions with experience also in the international law of Ecocide and permaculture. Currently developing Balkan Centre for the Rights of Nature and the Declaration on the Rights of the...

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Harpo ’t Hart

Harpo ’t Hart (1985) is a curator, sound designer and artist, studied piano at the Utrecht Conservatory, Media technology at Leiden University and Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

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Kevin Frediani

Kevin Frediani is Operation Manager for the National Trust in Angus, leading the stewardship of some of the region’s most treasured historic and cultural sites. Previously her was Curator of the Botanic Garden and Head of Grounds at the University of Dundee. His research interests explore how spaces become places imbued with emotion through the…

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Teresa Vicente Giménez

Teresa Vicente Giménez is Professor of Philosophy of Law. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Cooperation and Development Studies (CECODE) at the Universidad de Murcia.

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Letizia Artioli

Letizia Artioli is an architect and researcher based between Venice and Den Haag, always below sea level. She is currently working on Data Turbulences, Flooding Voids, and Weathering Spaces. Her work focuses on investigating the relationship between human beings and environmental data as a matter for research and creation, entangling archives of dichotomies between immaterial…

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Marie-Dominique Loÿe

Marie-Dominique Loÿe is a former teacher-researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her scientific work was dedicated to geology, surface water, and atmospheric deposition chemistry in Corsica and around the Mediterranean Sea. She has been teaching on geology and “environment and society”. Now she is involved in environmental struggles in Corsica, especially in the defense…

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Duncan Rawson

Duncan Rawson is farming sector expert. He works for European Food and Farming Partnerships.

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Thomas Fabre

Thomas Fabre is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Gustave-Eiffel University, under the supervision of Corine Pelluchon. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a master’s degree in environmental governance from AgroParisTech. Before that, he spent two years working for Nitidae, an NGO that promotes agroecological transition and combats deforestation in…

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Nico Landsman

Nico Landsman (1955) formerly worked for the Province of Zeeland in water management and climate adaptation. He is inspired by Western Scheldt itself, philosophy, Western academic knowledge, Indigenous wisdom, and generations yet to be born. He is connected to the Earth Trusteeship Initiative, which triggered him to start Rights of the de Scheldt as a…

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Mekhala Dave

Mekhala Dave is a lawyer & art academic based in Vienna. She is the ocean law and policy analyst/legal researcher at the TBA21–Academy and a doctoral researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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Erena Rhose

Erena Rhöse is a Māori woman native of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and living in Sweden. Erena is guardian of the tribal knowledge, a doctor of traditional Maori medicine, professor of Ecosophy at the University of Karlstad, Sweden.

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Nils Richterich

Nils Richterich is a sociologist based at the research training group “Fixing Future” (University of Frankfurt am Main), where he works on more-than-human sociology of inequality, environmental sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). In his dissertation, he investigates the question of what is required to establish different forms of the rights of nature.

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Julian Rainer Purrmann

Julian Purrmann is a research assistant in cultural anthropology at the University of Basel. During his studies, he has focused on questions concerning the inclusion of the voices, the signals, the interests and the agencies of the more than human world in democratic procedure and democratic innovations.

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Nuvola Ravera

Nuvola Ravera explores how emotions are influenced by objects and cultural traditions, aiming for harmony between nature and human-made environments. She collaborates with various experts and uses natural materials to create art pieces that examine the experience of care.

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Torsten Schäfer

Torsten Schäfer is a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, an environmental journalist, and a wilderness pedagogist. His work focuses on climate journalism, storytelling, and nature writing. Torsten was editor at GEO magazine and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He took training in survival education (one year) and river relations (Schumacher College). He…

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Simon Wynen

Simon Wynen is a wilderness educator and co-founder of the Loisachbündnis. He was born in 1999 and lives not far from the Loisach and the Murnauer Moos. From a young age, he has spent a great deal of time in nature, learning to live simply. As a wilderness educator and nature mentor, he strives to…

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Gert-Jan Stam

Gert-Jan Stam has a background in visual arts and theatre and is currently mostly interested in ‘multispecies cocreation’. He is co-founder of the transdisciplinary arts collective TAAT. Their practice is rooted in the interplay between architecture and theatre, which has evolved to creating ecosystems of encounter, shifting between artistic research, social practice and regenerative learning.…

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Markus Schärli

Markus Schärli is the founder and first president of the association Rechtsperson Reuss who wants to empower the river Reuss by giving him constitutional rights and an own personality.

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Clare Cooper

Clare is an independent creative producer, working across the fields of culture, nature restoration and tourism. She is co-founder and co-director of Tayside’s ‘museum without walls’, the Cateran Ecomuseum and with her sister, operates Vanora’s Cottages. Previously a member of Alyth Community Council and a founding Director of the Alyth Development Trust, she also served on the Local Action…

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Tina Jelia

Tina Jelia is a literary researcher and poet exploring the body as a confluence of traces and an epistemic agent that archives knowledge voided from dominant cultural frameworks. Both as a researcher and an author, she approaches poetry as an embodied practice that can disrupt calcified oppressive structures and help us attend to the mutual…

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Leon Lapa Pereira

Leon Lapa Pereira joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2023 as producer of the project Designing Self representation of water bodies in Europe. He is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans.

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Martin Hultman

Martin Hultman, Associate Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is widely published in energy, climate, and environmental issues in a variety of journals and more than ten books. His work has been translated into seven languages. Hultman leads three research groups analyzing ‘masculinities and energy’, ‘rights of nature’, and ‘climate change denial’. He…