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Spain’s Mar Menor to become first ecosystem in Europe with its own rights

Congress has begun the processing of a law that will result in the Spanish saltwater lagoon 'Mar Menor' becoming Europe's first…

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Sustainable Planet

Panama’s Rights of Nature Law Guarantees the Natural World’s Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate

The Central American nation joins a growing number of other countries in embracing a legal movement that gives land, trees, rivers,…

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Sustainable Planet

2021 was a big year for ‘Rights of Nature’

? As we wrap up 2021, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) share the movement’s highlights — from…

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Better Society

Chile votes to legalise same-sex marriage

Chilean Congress has overwhelmingly approved a landmark law allowing same-sex marriage in the historically Catholic country.

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Inspiring People

Ecuador’s Los Cedros Protected Forest granted Constitutional ‘Rights of Nature’ by highest court

The seven justices of the Constitutional Court ruled that mining in a protected forest violates constitutional rights of nature, threatens the…

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Inspiring People

Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in new UK law

Vertebrate animals will be recognised as sentient beings for the first time in UK law thanks to the introduction of the…

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Inspiring People

Quebec River becomes first in Canada to be granted legal personhood

The recognition of the 300km Muteshekau-shipu, or Magpie River, as a non-human person makes it Canada's first river to be granted…

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Inspiring People

Special bonds – the friendship between Eefje the Pig and Margarit the Person will warm your heart

We could write pages about the intelligence of pigs, but everything is said in this video as Margarit shares from her…

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Sustainable Planet

Four countries that have granted the natural world the same protection as humans

Here are four countries that give the natural world the same rights as humans to protect nature from destruction and exploitation…

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Good Stuff

Meet Claudette Colvin: The teen who came before Rosa Parks

Nine months before Rosa Parks famously protested segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, 15-year-old…

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Spain’s Mar Menor to become first ecosystem in Europe with its own rights

Panama’s Rights of Nature Law Guarantees the Natural World’s Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate

2021 was a big year for ‘Rights of Nature’

Chile votes to legalise same-sex marriage

Ecuador’s Los Cedros Protected Forest granted Constitutional ‘Rights of Nature’ by highest court

Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in new UK law

Quebec River becomes first in Canada to be granted legal personhood

Special bonds – the friendship between Eefje the Pig and Margarit the Person will warm your heart

Four countries that have granted the natural world the same protection as humans

Meet Claudette Colvin: The teen who came before Rosa Parks

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