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

Law Columbia

The “Rights of Nature” movement is fundamentally rethinking humanity’s relationship with nature, and it is gaining momentum. This movement is striving for a paradigm shift in which nature is placed at the center and humans are connected to it in an interdependent way, rather than a dominant one. What are the “Rights of Nature”?