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Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

While a legal decision that could reanimate a federal lawsuit may take until summer, the City of San Antonio is expected to move ahead with tree removals at Brackenridge Park as soon as it gets clearance from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Dec 2024

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

Members of the Lipan-Apache ‘Hoosh Chetzel’ Native American Church have been granted a rehearing of their federal lawsuit that could force the City of San Antonio to reconsider its policies targeting migratory birds and elder trees.

By James Courtney

/ 27 Sep 2024

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

WILD12: How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation

“All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and custom

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Sep 2024

WILD12: How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation

VIDEO: Rights of Nature Organizer Says the City of San Antonio Owes the Bird Protectors an Apology

‘Who is the crazy one? The person defending the ecosystem or the one justifying ecocide?’

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Sep 2024

VIDEO: Rights of Nature Organizer Says the City of San Antonio Owes the Bird Protectors an Apology

WILD12: It’s Time to Step Up to Protect the Legal Rights of Nature, Panelists Say

Attendees encouraged to advance legal claims in defense of all life on Earth. “There is no time to equivocate,” says Ponca Nation environmental justice leader.

By Greg Harman

/ 30 Aug 2024

WILD12: It’s Time to Step Up to Protect the Legal Rights of Nature, Panelists Say

WILD12: Buffalo are Center of Restoration Efforts from the Black Hills to the Texas Plains

“If you see this animal like your grandma, how would you treat it versus just something in the wild?” asked Tatewin Means, executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation.

By James Courtney

/ 29 Aug 2024

WILD12: Buffalo are Center of Restoration Efforts from the Black Hills to the Texas Plains

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

Indigenous peoples face promise—and potential perils—in the struggle for wilderness conservation.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Aug 2024

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says

“Either we face a lot of chaos, global disasters, tears from our relatives’ eyes … or we come together [and] unite as people of the world,” Arvol Looking Horse said.

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Aug 2024

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests

City of San Antonio contractors have been seen trying to dislodge migratory birds at Woodlawn Lake. The rookery is full of babies and eggs. Call these elected reps to stop it.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jun 2024

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests

LULAC Calls on City of San Antonio to Stop Displacing Birds, Trees—and Parkgoers

Resolution passed last month at LULAC’s state convention highlights the attacks on the birds and trees in Brackenridge Park —and their connection to civil and ceremonial rights for local Indigenous and Latine communities.

By Greg Harman

/ 13 Jun 2024

LULAC Calls on City of San Antonio to Stop Displacing Birds, Trees—and Parkgoers

The sacred and the law: Indigenous claims on trial in the Brackenridge lawsuit.

The central question for U.S. District Judge Fred Biery is whether the city of San Antonio has made sufficient efforts to provide members of the Lipan-Apache “Hoosh Chetzel” Native American Church access to one of its most sacred sites for religious ceremonies. City attorneys argued last week that n

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Oct 2023

Tribes Responding to Climate’s ‘Slow-Moving Tsunami’ Threatening Native Lands

The Hoh, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah Tribes have coped with storms and tsunamis battering the coasts of the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. Now, threatened by rising sea levels and other climate impacts, they are evolving to meet new dangers to their villages and history.

By Terri Hansen

/ 18 Sep 2023

Tribes Responding to Climate’s ‘Slow-Moving Tsunami’ Threatening Native Lands

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