Madras High Court grants living being status to ‘Mother Nature’
Madras, IndiaMay 2022
The Madras High Court in a recent order declared “Mother Nature” a Living Being with all corresponding rights,…
Rights of nature
Gaarú: The growing African Movement for Earth Jurisprudence
The Gaia Foundation2021
Earth Jurisprudence recognises that the Earth is embedded in a lawful and ordered Universe. Our Earth uniquely sustains…
Lake Erie Bill of Rights, USA-Canada
City of Toledo, Ohio , USA2019
For years, Lake Erie – the southernmost of the Great Lakes (between Canada and the USA) has been…
Statement from Colombo: Agreeing To Sustain Life: Our Ecological Conversion
IUCN Specialist Group on Religion, Spirituality, Environmental Conservation and Climate Justice2016
The IUCN Commission for Environmental Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) Specialist Group on Religion, spirituality, environmental conservation and…
Constitution of the Ecuador Republic
National Assembly of the Ecuador Republic2008
In September 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to incorporate in the Constitution the “rights…
New Zealand’s Whanganui River granted legal status as a person after 170-year battle
New Zealand March 2017
The country’s Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Christopher Finlayson said the passing of the Te Awa Tupua…