An inspiring conversation about how action is the driving force behind changes in the law. If you want your river to have legal personhood, to have rights, act as if it already did!
Paul Powlesland is one of the founders of Lawyers for Nature. He fights and campaigns for the rights of nature, especially trees and rivers. He is also a River Guardian for the River Roding in London, and Founder of the River Roding Trust. He acts on the river's behalf by contesting planning applications, planting trees, litter picking, creating habitat for biodiversity, walking the river to find problems such as the influx of Japanese knotweed and the unlisted sewage outflows, hassling the Environment Agency...