Ecuador Rocks

In Ecuador trees have now rights too. Ecuadorians rewrote their constitution in 2008 and included a chapter on rights for nature.

Article 1 reads: Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.
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and Art. 5. The persons, people, communities and nationalities will have the right to benefit from the environment and form natural wealth that will allow wellbeing.

Read more here.

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I bet this Ecuadorian stick grasshopper is happy about the new constitution too!