Environmental Justice Law Clinic

Get free legal advice on environmental justice law matters.

Free legal advice

Our Environmental Justice Law Clinic – a Rights of Nature hub – works in collaboration with the Environmental Law Foundation and offers support to individuals and communities in addressing a wide range of environmental concerns, including:

• the negative environmental impacts of planning applications, such as those arising from housing developments
• harm to conservation areas, protected sites, and other habitats
• initiatives to recognise and advance the rights of trees, woodlands and forests, rivers and other ecosystems
• the protection of wildlife 
• issues relating to animal welfare.

Through this work, the Clinic helps communities to give nature a voice in law and decision-making, ensuring that environmental harm is challenged, and supporting the intrinsic rights of non-human beings who we treat and respect as subjects of concern in their own right.

The rights of trees, woodlands and forests toolkit

Our groundbreaking rights of trees, woodlands and forests toolkit PDF 16.27MB serves as a comprehensive guide to delivering rights-based protection for trees, woodlands and forests. 

Containing a wealth of practical tools to help communities, landowners, and decision-makers, the toolkit is designed to inspire action, from legal and policy reform to community stewardship. 

This vital toolkit offers both the vision and the practical steps to place nature’s intrinsic value at the heart of our democratic processes.

The Clinic helped secure recognition of the badgers' legal right to forage and restore their habitat. Thank you from us, and the local badgers and wildlife.” Community member

Wembdon Parklands