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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

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The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. The latest case in Pakistan was decided a few days ago, on April 15. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. State of Colorado.