Leaders of the Colorado mountain town Nederland just gave their surrounding 448-square-mile watershed “fundamental and inalienable rights,” like those conferred on people and corporations ...

In Colorado, the Rights of Nature movement is spearheaded by Save the Colorado, a nonprofit that strives to protect and restore the Colorado River and its tributaries from the source to the sea.

This story has been updated. The ink is barely dry on a Colorado town’s first rights of nature resolutions, yet a motion to repeal them passed unanimously Tuesday night.

Nederland Colorado reading time: 14 minutes I took this day trip from my home in Boulder up to Nederland Colorado in November 2023. It’s a small town but I had a wonderful day hiking, eating ...

Leaders of the Colorado mountain town Nederland just gave their surrounding 448-square-mile watershed “fundamental and inalienable rights,” like those conferred on people and corporations — bolstering ...

From the Colorado Sun story: The town of Nederland leaders loved their wild watersheds so much they passed a resolution for “rights of nature” to protect local rivers, and bolstered that by ...

The Wild Bear Nature Center in Nederland is moving to a new location that will allow for expanded programming, more visitors and new preschool services in a building with net-zero emissions.

A town in Colorado has appointed two legal guardians to act on behalf of nature—in this case, a section of Boulder Creek and its watershed situated within the town of Nederland.

A nature center in the town of Nederland is getting closer to it’s goal of being the first of it’s kind thanks to a grant from Boulder County.

Nederland is the first community in Colorado to pass a resolution recognizing the rights of a body of water. The Nederland Town Board last week voted 5-1 to approve a resolution called the Rights ...