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Meanwhile, in environmental news, let’s take to the courts our environmental issues… let’s grant animals and nature the right to exist per human courts….
Ecuador’s high court has ruled that wild animals possess the legal right to exist, develop their innate instincts, and be free from disproportionate cruelty, fear, and distress, reports Katie Surma for Inside Climate News.
The landmark decision occurred in February after Ecuador’s top court interpreted the country’s “rights of nature” constitutional laws in a case involving a woolly monkey name Estrellita, Science Alert’s Tessa Koumoundouros reports. “Rights of nature” are laws that establish an ecosystem’s legal right to exist and regenerate.
In addition, Panama has declared that nature has ‘the right to exist’ in groundbreaking new legislation.
It grants nature the “right to exist, persist and regenerate its life cycles” meaning Panama’s parliament will now have to consider the impact of its laws and policies on the natural world.
The legislation, which will come into force in 2023, requires that the government’s future policies respect the rights of Panama’s ecosystems, including its tropical forests, rivers and mangroves. The country’s parliament will also be legally obliged to promote the rights of nature through its foreign policies.
Source: Smithsonian Euro News.Green
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