{"id":36881,"date":"2023-06-30T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36881"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T17:11:12","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-riverbank-al-jazerra-meets-matthew-bird-on-lewes-the-river-ouse-and-the-rights-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36881","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the riverbank\u2019: Al Jazerra meets Matthew Bird\u2026 on Lewes, the river Ouse and the rights of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31731\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trees_river_n_yorks_p_badcock_300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>An English town\u2019s take on rights of nature made it to <em>Al Jazeera\u2019s<\/em> recent Podcast the Take, when a town in England \u2013 Lewes &#8211; voted to recognize the rights of its river, the River Ouse.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration only<\/em><\/h6>\n<h3><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>An English town\u2019s take on rights of nature\u2026<\/p>\n<p>English rivers are polluted. Could giving them legal rights clean them up? In the town of Lewes, the answer to that question was yes. In February, the town\u2019s council voted yes to a rights of river motion, the first in the United Kingdom. This motion is the first step in a two-year long journey to give the River Ouse legal representation and rights. The UK is facing heavy river pollution: most of them are not swimmable, and all failed a quality test in 2019. Since then, government testing of rivers has only plummeted. Lewes\u2019 council now takes on the task of figuring out what exactly rights of a river should be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/podcasts\/2023\/5\/25\/an-english-towns-take-on-rights-of-nature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a>and see the podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An English town\u2019s take on rights of nature made it to Al Jazeera\u2019s recent Podcast the Take, when a town in England \u2013 Lewes &#8211; voted to recognize the rights of its river, the River Ouse. image for illustration only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36882,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36881\/revisions\/36882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}