We use law to defend and remedy nature.
When nature is harmed, action must be taken to remedy it. Our legal cases hold those who cause harm to nature — including biodiversity, habitats, climate, animal welfare and human wellbeing — responsible for healing and restoring it.
Our strategic cases require offenders to provide actual remedies that reflect and rectify the damage caused, supporting conservation and livelihoods, increasing accountability, and deterring future offenders.
Most importantly, we are driving sectoral change for a healthier environment.
Pongo the Stolen Orangutan: How Law Can Heal tells the story of an illegally traded orangutan and how conservation litigation can help biodiversity.
Our work drives our impact
Nature is under threat. Illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, mining, habitat loss and the climate crisis are all driving unprecedented biodiversity loss on a global scale.
Our network of lawyers, conservation scientists and activists aims to identify and implement effective legal responses to hold environmental offenders liable for remedying the harm they cause, using existing yet underused laws that enable courts to order offenders to take meaningful restorative action.
These impacts create change not only for individual cases and victims, but are also driving societal change that is key to building a thriving, just and biodiverse planet.
