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S1 | Ep 3: The Cloud Forest v The Mine
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Mar 10, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Ecuador was the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) has not heard many cases in the decade or so since the law was added. The new Constitutional justices made a point of picking several cases to test rights of nature, and in 2021 handed down a major judgement about the future of one of the world's most biodiverse cloud forests.
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Released:
Mar 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (63)
S1 | Ep1: Manoomin v Minnesota: Welcome to our first season, The Forest for the Trees, a look at rights of nature cases all over the world. In this episode, we start with a case that's making its way through the courts right now, on behalf of wild rice, or manoomin in the Ojibwe... by Damages