May 2022

• Happy the Elephant Has Lawyers Arguing to Free Her From the Zoo: Lawsuits also argue that lakes and wild rice have legal rights, too
  • Missouri bill seeks to block people from suing on behalf of ecosystems
  • Idaho passed a bill that bans environmental elements, artificial intelligence, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects from gaining personhood
  • Orange County, Florida voters approved a county charter amendment in Nov 2020 giving rights to local bodies of water. State of Florida now argues a bill signed into law in June 2020 prohibited local government entities like counties from granting legal rights to plants, animals, or bodies of water. Proponents of the county amendment plan to argue the Florida constitution empowers local government entities to pass laws to protect nature, which includes the rights in the Nov 2020 amendment.

April 2022

• Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

March 2022

• Press Release: Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe Brings First “Rights of Salmon” Case
• Not going with the flow: salmon ‘sue’ US city over harm to population
• Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

February 2022

• Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World’s ‘Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate’

November 2021

• Wesche, P. (2021). Rights of Nature in Practice: A Case Study on the Impacts of the Colombian Atrato River Decision. Journal of Environmental Law, 33(3), 531–555. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqab021

September 2021

• Wild rice sues to stop oil pipeline

January 2021

• Guayasamin, J. M., Vandegrift, R., Policha, T., Encalada, A. C., Greene, N., Ríos-Touma, B., Endara, L., Cárdenas, R. E., Larreátegui, F., Baquero, L., Arcos, I., Cueva, J., Peck, M., Alfonso-Cortes, F., Thomas, D., DeCoux, J., Levy, E., & Roy, B. A. (2021). Biodiversity conservation: Local and global consequences of the application of “rights of nature” by Ecuador. Neotropical Biodiversity, 7(1), 541–545. https://doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2021.2006550

December 2020

• This river in New Zealand is legally a person. Here’s how it happened

November 2020

• Ecocide: Should killing nature be a crime?
• Can Spain fix its worst ecological crisis by making a lagoon a legal person?

September 2020

• Laastad, S. G. (2020). Nature as a Subject of Rights? National Discourses on Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature. Forum for Development Studies, 47(3), 401–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2019.1654544

August 2018

• The return of nature worship

March 2015

• Sajeva, G. (2015). Rights with limits: Biocultural rights – between self-determination and conservation of the environment. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 6(1), 30–54. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2015.01.02

2014

• Bavikatte, S. K. (2014). Stewarding The Earth: Rethinking Property and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198098669.001.0001

2010

• Marcus, J., Kurucz, E. C., & Colbert, B. A. (2010). Conceptions of the Business-Society-Nature Interface: Implications for Management Scholarship. Business & Society, 49(3), 402–438. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650310368827

1995

• Starik, M. (1995). Should trees have managerial standing? Toward stakeholder status for non-human nature. Journal of Business Ethics, 14(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881435