For Immediate Release, April 15, 2021
Contact: Natalia Greene, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, +593 99 944 3724, natalia@garn.org
Alejandro Olivera, Center for Biological Diversity, +52 612 1040604, aolivera@biologicaldiversity.org
Ecuador Court Urged to Protect Endangered Frogs From Mining Project, Enforce Constitutional ‘Rights of Nature’
QUITO,
Ecuador Environmental groups filed a legal brief today urging the Provincial Court of Imbabura in Ecuador to halt all environmental permits for a mining project because the government failed to consider the mine’s effects on two endangered, recently discovered frogs, among other vulnerable species.
This failure violates the “Rights of Nature” enshrined in Ecuador’s constitution, according to today’s brief, which supports a lawsuit filed by the community in Imbabura.