There is a wealth of materials about all species having rights by virtue of their existence as members of a single Earth community; and examples of how customary law, indigenous rights and other legal mechanisms can be used to develop a new Earth Jurisprudence.

If you are interested in Earth Jurisprudence and want to learn more, visit the Gaia Foundation's Earth Jurisprudence Library, or take a look at some of the following books and articles:

• Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice, by Cormac Cullinan, 2002.
• Should Trees Have Standing? And Other Essays on Law, Morals and the Environment, by Christopher D. Stone, 1996.
• The Universe Story. From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era – a Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos, by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, 1992.
• The Great Work. Our way into the future, by Thomas Berry, 1989.
• The Dream of the Earth, by Thomas Berry, 1988.
• The Universe is a Green Dragon, by Brian Swimme, 1984.
• Gaia: A new look at life on Earth, by James Lovelock, 1979.
• A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There, by Aldo Leopold 1949.
• Natural Governance, by Michael Meacher inResurgence Magazine No.222., 2004.
• Earth Democracy Living Democracy, by Vandana Shiva in Resurgence Magazine No.222, 2004.
• Human Rights and Human Obligations, by Jostein Gardner at the International PEN Congress in Tromsø, Norway, 2004.
  Rights of the Earth, by Thomas Berry in Resurgence Magazine, No. 214, 2002.
• Justice For All:, by Cormac Cullinan in Resurgence Magazine, No. 214, 2002.
• The Earth Charter Initiative.
• World Charter for Nature (1982).