Ecuador's Rights of Nature Amendment

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Ecuador is the only country that recognizes nature as a subject and protects its rights in its constitution. Environmentalist organizations from five countries fild a complaint on november 20 sixth, against british petroleum b p for the spill of over five million burrows. The court eventually threw out that case for lack of jurisdiction. Various other cases have tested the mits and protections of ecuador's rights of nature amendment.

In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature” – infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of Mother Earth. Part 9 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Reported by Amy Westervelt and Polyglot Barbershop. Script editor, Cheryl Devall. Production and mix by John Biewen. Music in this episode by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, and Fabian Almazan. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.