Galapagos, Ecuador court case on the Charles Darwin Highway in Santa Cruz
In 2012, a judge ruled that highway construction halt until Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands did an environmental impact assessment, invoking rights of nature.Read More →
This page identifies initiatives that frame ecological jurisprudence in terms of rights of nature. Initiatives are included in this category when they explicitly recognize any non-human element of Nature (e.g., ecosystems, plant species, animal species) or Nature in general as a subject with rights.