Summary
In 2018 the Brazilian municipality Fortaleza adopted an ordinance recognizing rights of nature. Article 244 of the ordinance states “All beings of Nature have the right to an ecologically balanced environment, good for common use of the people and essential to a healthy quality of life and natural ecosystem processes, imposing on the Public Power, through its agencies of the Direct Administration and the entities of the Indirect Administration, as well as the collectivity the duty to: preserve and restore the essential ecological processes, as well as guarantee and provide for the ecological management of species and ecosystems in order to guarantee the preservation of Nature and the improvement of the quality of life of human beings and other beings of Nature.