The idea has been debated ever since Prof Christopher Stone posited in a 1972 issue of the Southern California Law Review that trees should have legal rights. Enter the Fungi Foundation (FF), a pioneering non-profit that’s working to get these organisms the recognition they deserve. It successfully lobbied the National Geographic Society to include fungi in its defnition of wildlife, alongside plants and animals. Visit: ffungi.orgThe Fungi Foundation successfully lobbied the National Geographic Society to include fungi in its definition of wildlife, alongside plants and animals. Image: Hans Veth3) Showing that rivers are living entities Rights of Rivers A world where rivers are not just watercourses, but living entities with legal rights?