Thomas Linzey on Nature's Rights and Self-Owning Land
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
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The Importance of Nature in the Western Legal System
The concept of legally enforceable rights for ecosystems dates back to a 1972 court decision. Rights of nature and good concept of seeing nature as something other than property has long been an indigenous cultural value, he says. The first real break with this Western legal tradition in terms of making law was the Tamakua case where waterways within the borough of Tamakua had the right to exist, flourish, thrive.
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