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THE preamble of the 1982 World Charter for Nature says, 'Every form of life is unique, warranting respect regardless of its worth to man ...' With the emergence of the new field of environmental law, this statement led to the issue of awarding rights to subjects other than man, and has granted legal standing to natural entities such as rivers and mountains and the right of species to survive.
A local Maori tribe had fought for nearly 150 years for the Whanganui River to be recognized as an ancestor and a legal person with rights and duties including property rights in its riverbed; Colombia's Supreme Court in 2018 recognized the Colombian Amazon as an 'entity subject of rights,' just as its Constitutional Court in 2016 did with the Atrato River.
Legal Rights Of Nature In Changed World
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