FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 19, 2020 QUITO, ECUADOR—Today, a coalition of environmental organizations appeared as amicus curiae before Ecuador’s Constitutional Court to seek a robust application of the “Rights of Nature” in order to save the Los Cedros protected forest. Los Cedros is an immensely biodiverse Andean cloud forest that is under threat from recent miningContinue Reading Coalition Appears Before Ecuador’s Constitutional Court in Possible Historic Rights of Nature Case

Our friends from the Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago, recently featured an essay by author Thea Riofrancos as part of our their Question series: How do we live respectfully with the land and with each other? The series is curated and edited by Indigenous activist/scholar Julian Brave NoiseCat, who helped shape the GreenContinue Reading FIELD NOTES FROM EXTRACTIVE FRONTIERS

“The emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa is at once innovative and ancient, radical and rooted: a revival and enhancement of time-honoured, Earth-centred human traditions offering a fresh orientation with which the continent might navigate its way into a flourishing, life-sustaining future.” Carlotta Byrne, who coordinates the Earth Jurisprudence Programme at The Gaia Foundation andContinue Reading New article on the emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa

QUITO, Ecuador— Grupos ambientalistas presentaron hoy un testimonio legal instando a la Corte Constitucional de Ecuador a detener todas las concesiones mineras en el bosque protector Los Cedros, un “Área Clave para la Biodiversidad” global. El documento cita preocupaciones de la famosa primatóloga Jane Goodall y más de 1,200 científicos destacados. En este caso sin precedentes, la corteContinue Reading Entrega de Amicus Curiae para el Caso: Los Cedros entregado a la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador

(Shared from the Center for Biological Diversity) For Immediate Release, September 4, 2020 Contact: Constanza Prieto Figelist, Earth Law Center, cpfigelist@earthlaw.org, +1 (202) 621-3877Natalia Greene, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature +593 99 944 3724, nati.greene@gmail.com Alejandro Olivera, Center for Biological Diversity, +52 612 1040604, aolivera@biologicaldiversity.org Environmental Groups Ask Ecuador ́s Highest Court toContinue Reading Press release Los Cedros case – Amicus Curiae to Ecuador’s highest Court

(Compartido desde el Centro para la Diversidad Biológica) Para publicación inmediata, Septiembre 4, 2020 Contacto: Constanza Prieto Figelist, Earth Law Center, cpfigelist@earthlaw.org, +1 (202) 621-3877Natalia Greene, Alianza Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza +593 99944 3724, nati.greene@gmail.com Alejandro Olivera, Centro para la Diversidad Biológica, +52 612 104 0604, aolivera@biologicaldiversity.org Piden ambientalistas al Tribunal SupremoContinue Reading Boletín de prensa – Caso: Los Cedros – Entrega de Amicus Curiae

Hoy, 4 de agosto, se entregó un oficio a la Embajada de Bolivia en Ecuador, comunicando que el Tribunal Internacional por los Derechos de la Naturaleza realizará una audiencia en línea para el caso:”Ecocidio en la #Amazonía y en la #Chiquitania” el 17, 18 y 20 de agosto. Se recabará información y se dictará una sentencia. #DerechosdelaNaturaleza

Over 99% in favor of ecocide crime, 63% for a national referendum on it Pictured above: Jojo Mehta, co-founder Stop Ecocide, Valérie Cabanes,international law expert (human rights), Élisabeth Borne, French Minister for Ecological Transition Following the “gilets jaunes” crisis last year, President Macron convened a “citizen’s climate assembly” – the Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat (CCC) of 150 randomly selectedContinue Reading French citizens’ assembly votes to make ecocide a crime