Rivers' Rights as Ancestral Beings

This week Earth Matters explores how uniting Indigenous world views with emerging legal concepts offers a strengthened calls for rights for nature.  It’s a republication of 2DRY FMs Water Watch episode from World Water week in 2022, featureing Prof. Anne Poelina, a Kimberley, Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous scholar and chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council and Dr Erin O'Donnell from the Melbourne University School of Law speaking at a webinar by Resources, Environment and Development Group at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.  With thanks to the Crawford School of Public Policy for permission to redistribute their webinar. The full presentation is available at https://youtu.be/kixgWtkDHPA Support the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Councils Fundraising efforts at www.martuwarra.org/donate Earth Matters Episode #1383 produced by Megan Williams