Recently a group of top lawyers from around the world, convened by our Foundation, gave ecocide a legal definition: 

"unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts". 

Walk for Earth

Walk for Earth is a fundraising and awareness-raising pilgrimage by Zoe Bicât and her pack mule Falco, from May – Oct 2022, in support of Stop Ecocide International (SEI). Zoe and Falco aim to walk from Oxford to Loch Lomond in Scotland - where Polly Higgins QC, joint founding Director of SEF, grew up - and they hope to get as far south again as possible on the return leg! At the heart of the pilgrimage is a collaborative textile project linking people along the route. Together they will create a woven textile piece whose yarns and dyes are local and sustainably produced, telling a story of each area the pilgrimage passes through, and weaving its participants together in their care and hopes for the natural living world. The final piece will be presented as a gift to Vanuatu’s Ambassador to Europe by SEI. Vanuatu in the South Pacific is listed as the world’s most climate-vulnerable island. The gift of the textile piece - from one island nation to another - is a way to recognise their international leadership: Vanuatu became the first nation to propose serious consideration of an ecocide law on the global stage in 2019. When you want to honour someone in Vanuatu, you give them cloth. 

Here’s how you can join in with Walk for Earth to help raise funds: 

https://walkforearth.co.uk/how-to-join-walk-for-earth/

Please contact Zoe through the website for volunteer opportunities with Walk for Earth.