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Coalition Submits Amicus Brief in Nangaritza Case Calling for Bold Application of Rights of Nature in Ecuador


For Immediate Release,
February 3, 2021
Contact:
Grant Wilson, Earth Law Center, (510) 566-1063, [email protected]
Alex Olivera, Center for Biological Diversity, +521 (612) 1040604, [email protected]
Coalition Submits Amicus Brief in Nangaritza Case Calling for Bold Application of Rights of Nature in Ecuador
QUITO,
Ecuador A coalition of forest experts, river protectors and law professors submitted an amicus brief this week to Ecuador s Constitutional Court calling for a robust application of the “Rights of Nature” to protect the Upper Nangaritza River Basin Protected Forest ( Bosque Protector de la Cuenca Alta del Rio Nangaritza”) from dangerous and harmful mining. This is the latest case in a series that the Constitutional Court will draw from to determine what the Rights of Nature means in practice. ....

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