Nature Rights

The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia's historic bill

April 2011

Approval of Bolivia's revolutionary 'Mother Earth' law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle for real ecological transformation of their economy and society.

Could granting rights to nature change the climate debate?

December 2010
Cormac Cullinan

In the wake of failure in Cancun and the much deeper problem that humanity is no longer living within the ecological capacity of the planet, might it be time for nature to have its own legal advocates?