Requa, California, USA – The Klamath River Accord was signed on Sunday July 13th by Indigenous youth, Tribal leaders and allied organizations from multiple river basins around the world - including Chile, Bolivia, New Zealand, China, and the United States - as a call to action for dam removals and a
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Rio Aguarico, Sucumbíos Ecuador – Amazon Basin In late November of 2023, the Siekopai Nation won a historic lawsuit in the provincial court of Sucumbíos, Ecuador to deliver land back and title for 104,000 acres of biodiverse rainforest in their territorial homeland Pëekë'ya (Lagartococha). The lawsuit was founded
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Reflections from Chapter 1: “The River of Cedars” by Robert Macfarlane “Everywhere I traveled, I asked people the same question: What is the river saying? This is an old growth question; it has been around a long time. The answers I received were beautiful, cryptic, troubling, and illuminating.” — Robert Macfarlane,
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What Is the MOTH Collective? And What Does “More Than Human Rights” Have to Do with RIVERS? Here at RIVERS, we’ve been working our way chapter by chapter through Is a River Alive?, the latest book by Cambridge author Robert Macfarlane. (Check out the thread here to tap in!
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Okay, okay, okay — We’re Dropping Into Our First Book Review Series at RIVERS and believe it or not, this one actually required some reading. Last week, my grandma (aka Grammie) sent me a book. Over the last few years, she’s seen me get deeper and deeper into rivers—
Sure enough—like an answer from the river universe—a playlist showed up, from former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.
Exploration
There are ancient echoes through a fraught valley...
Exploration
RIVERS co-founder Wil Henkel takes a personal dive into his relation to rivers. When I think about rivers, I think about their pulse. The undulating power and grace of which they move, in poetic dances and in raw force. I almost drowned on the Middle fork of Nooksack river in
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a RIVERS curation Here at RIVERS, we focus—predominantly—on rivers. I know you might be thinking, well, obviously... But as so many of us river lovers understand, a river is far more than just the water that flows from source to mouth. Rivers are the veins of the watershed.
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The Salish Sea is more than a body of water. It is a living, breathing bioregion—an intricate web of watersheds, ecosystems, and cultures that stretch across the U.S.-Canada border in the Pacific Northwest. Defined not by political lines but by the flow of rivers, the Salish Sea
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Because rivers deserve to be heard. RIVERS was created with a simple but urgent mission: to give voice to rivers. Across the world, rivers shape landscapes, sustain life, and hold stories that are often overlooked or fragmented across niche communities and platforms. We believe these voices—of water, people, culture,