UK Rights of Nature Map
This page covers two things: how personal data is handled when you submit a case to the UK Rights of Nature Map, and how the map treats the data it publishes about other people's work. If you only want the privacy part, start at Privacy notice.
Every case on the map is labelled with its source, and each source is kept in a separate record so provenance is never lost:
Where the same initiative appears in more than one source it shows as a single marker, and you can switch between each source's account of it. We do not merge them into one version: the accounts sometimes disagree, and the disagreement is worth seeing.
EJM data is reproduced exactly as EJM published it. We do not correct, tidy, re-word or re-categorise it, even where we believe it to be wrong. Where we have found an apparent error we record the observation separately and report it to EJM; their published value stands until they change it.
Our classification of an EJM case, meaning the filter categories used on this map, is ours and not EJM's. It is held separately from their fields and excluded from anything we hand back to them. Where the map corrects the position of an EJM record so that it plots in the right place, the stored value is still theirs.
EJM publishes its own Data Ethics statement and a Codebook describing its methodology. EJM follows the Global Indigenous Data Alliance's CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance alongside the FAIR principles, and provides its data "as is", without warranty as to accuracy or completeness. Errors in EJM's own records are best reported directly to them at info@ecojurisprudence.org.
It is a living record, not a definitive database. Inclusion is not a legal opinion, and the boundary of what counts as a Rights of Nature initiative is deliberately loose and contested.
Where we could not establish a reliable date for an initiative, we have left the year blank rather than guessing, and said why on the record. Those cases are reachable through the "Undated" filter. Similarly, a case marked as an early stage may reflect the earliest category available to us rather than firm evidence that a document exists.
Positions are approximate and often indicate a town, catchment or district rather than a precise site. They do not represent official or legal boundaries.
The map names the councils, organisations and campaigns behind each initiative, and sometimes the individual councillors or campaigners publicly associated with it. This is drawn from material already in the public domain, such as council minutes and published campaign pages. If you are named and would prefer not to be, contact us and we will remove or amend it.
Every case has a Propose addition/adjustment button, and corrections are welcome, including disputes about whether something belongs here at all. For anything sourced from EJM, we will pass the correction upstream rather than silently editing their record.
This section explains how personal data is collected and used when you submit a case to the UK Rights of Nature Map.
Thomas Rickard of Riverknowing. Contact: thomas@riverknowing.uk.
When you submit a case, we collect: your submitter name, your full legal name, your contact email, your e-signature, and any other personal data you choose to include in the form's free-text fields.
The form makes clear which fields are published on the map and which remain private, and gives you the option to control whether your name appears publicly. Your full legal name, e-signature, and the email used for moderation contact are never published — they are used only for verification and to communicate with you.
Submissions are stored using Tally (form collection) and Airtable (case management). These are third-party services used solely to operate the map and moderation process — your data is not shared or sold beyond what is needed to run these services.
We keep your data until you ask us to remove it.
You can access, correct, or request deletion of your data at any time by emailing thomas@riverknowing.uk. You can also withdraw your consent for your case to remain published this way.
The submission form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent automated spam. Turnstile processes some technical data as part of this check, in line with Cloudflare's own privacy policy.
This service is not intended for use by anyone under 18.