Africa Earth Law Map
This map highlights initiatives which are reviving and practising Earth Jurisprudence/Earth Law, including organisations and alliances, legal precedents and community governance systems. This is an evolving map so please do share additional initiatives to: info@gaianet.org.
The African Biodiversity Network (ABN) is a regional network of individuals and organisations seeking African solutions to the injustices and destruction arising from the current industrial development model. The ABN strives to ignite and nurture a growing network of agents of change and enable resilient local communitites to govern their lives and livelihoods rooted in their own social,...
The Ngwenyama Lodge in Botswana is a traditional lodge which provides training for traditional healers and people in African Earth-centred customary law and practices.
Learn more about Ngwenyama Lodge.
MELCA ((Movement for Ecological Learning and Community Action) is working with indigenous communities to revive their traditional knowledge and community governance systems based on Earth-centred customs. Learn more about the work of MELCA for Community Ecological Governance.
The Institute for Culture and Ecology is working with communities in Kenya to revive indigenous knowledge to build the resilience of communities and ecosystems. Learn more about ICE's work to protect sacred sites along the Kathita River.
Kenyan partners of the African Biodiversity Network played an important role in the drafting of the Kenyan Constitution, advocating for recognition of community rights to govern their land and territory according to Earth Jurisprudence principles.
Those involved included Professor Wangari Maathai (Greenbelt Movement), Ng'ang'a Thiong'o, Kariuki Thuku and Tetu Maingi (Porini Association),...
The Porini Association is working with communities in Karima to reclaim their traditional custodial rights and responsibilities to govern their Sacred Forest according to Earth-centred customary laws. Learn more about Porini Association's work to regenerate the Karima Sacred Forest and accompany the community to set a legal precedent.
EnAct International is an environmental law and policy consultancy that specialises in developing and strengthening governance systems that promote ecologically sustainable societies.
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The Mupo Foundation is working with communities in Venda, South Africa to reclaim their ancestral rights and responsibilities to protect the network of sacred sites and territories according to their Earth-centred customary governance systems. Learn more about the work of the Mupo Foundation and the legal precedent being established.
On 3rd August 2010, the Save Mapungubwe Coalition launched a High Court interdict to stop mining in an area of critical ecological, cultural, spiritual and archaeological importance, and an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
See Earth Law precedent for more information.
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