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

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Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. What countries have declared rights of nature? Climate litigation using the rights of nature.