Informatin from Instagram, 23 June 2026
A small Canadian town has become the first in the country to officially recognise trees as living beings with rights of their own, acknowledging their vital role in protecting biodiversity, improving air quality, reducing extreme heat and helping communities adapt to climate change.
At a time when environmental challenges can feel overwhelming, it’s a powerful reminder that a different relationship with nature is possible.
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The small Quebec municipality of Terrasse-Vaudreuil (west of Montreal) unanimously passed a resolution recognizing trees as living beings with their own fundamental rights, becoming the first in Canada to sign onto the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.The Declaration’s Core Principles inspired by filmmaker André Desrochers’ documentary Des arbres et des arts, the town’s June 2026 resolution acknowledges trees as “sentient living beings” and our greatest allies in the fight against climate change.
The text outlines three fundamental principles:
Right to exist: Trees are granted the right to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration.
Ecological value: They are recognized as a common human good whose existence is vital to life on Earth.
Coexistence: Humans must act toward trees in a “spirit of fraternity and solidarity”.
What This Means for the Town Terrasse-Vaudreuil will review its municipal rules to ensure trees are protected, or formally mandate that any cut-down trees are replaced.
No Development Halt: Mayor Michel Bourdeau noted that the measure will not impede development but will encourage urban canopy protection, tree planting, and public awareness programs.
Broader Context: While this is a first for trees in Canada, the concept of granting legal personhood to nature in the country was established in 2021, when the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit granted Quebec’s Magpie River nine legal rights.
Generall Note from USA: Dear citizen of the Town Terrasse-Vaudreuil, thank you for your service to all who serve in the pursuit of liberty and justice for all. For all who stand to protect the rights and freedoms of the good citizens of the world. It is with great sorrow and imagining that the USA in the current state of crisis that it is in for most of you who fought and fight for her would be greatly disappointed and likely choose not to do so now. Sorry we’re letting the debt of liberty your service provides down. To the remaining good citizens of the world who wish for love, peace, prosperity, joy, and happiness for others of which the numbers continue to dwindle there are many still in the USA. Many that still wish for a better life for others and a better world than how they found it with a bright future. Look forward. Steady your gaze on your heart and dreams. Find your common humanity with courage and kindness and share it.
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Terrasse-Vaudreuil is a very small municipality on Île Perrot, 35 km west of Montreal Island in Quebec, Canada, laying on Lake of Two Mountains
At the beginning of the 20th century, Terrasse-Vaudreuil was the site of a large powder magazine.
Population 1986, land area 1,06 km2, 830 private dwellings.
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Here you find the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Trees:
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