The petition by the More than Human Life (MOTH) project, which advocates for “advancing the rights of humans and non-humans”, ...

Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid ...

In a world first, 'rights of nature' project petitions copyright office to recognise Los Cedros forest as song co-creator ...

The Los Cedros Protective Forest is at the forefront of a global movement rooted in the Indigenous belief that the environment has intrinsic rights.

It's a move they and other experts say could help move the needle forward in the growing movement to secure legal rights for plants, animals, and the very concept of nature. Ecuador's Intellectual ...

The pioneering ruling in Ecuador has laid the groundwork for protecting nonhumans as legal persons. To ensure that more-than-human rights are enforced, the rights community must act.

Scientists debunked a widely accepted mass extinction of 90 plant species in Ecuador’s Centinela cloud forests in the 1980s, ...

CALI, Colombia (Reuters) -Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing ... activists said during U.N. COP16 nature talks in Colombia this week. Nearly 200 countries ...

Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks.

GENEVA - The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has called on the Government of Ecuador to ensure that detained former vice-president Jorge David Glas ...

In many third-world and developing countries, wildlife and nature are often viewed as impediments to progress, or at best, ...