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Rights of Nature laws are becoming a vital tool for addressing environmental injustice. From New Zealand and India to Ecuador and Bolivia, advocates have successfully secured legal rights for rivers, forests, and mountains. Granting rights to nature has the potential to expand environmental protections, strengthen indigenous rights, promote sustainable development, and alter how humans relate to nature. Despite these promises, rights of Nature laws have met with greater resistance in some countries than in others.

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building - in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it.

The Legal Edition provides the latest Legal, Business & Policy News on issues that mainstream media ignores or overlooks. Whether it be Internet Privacy, Government Monitoring & Surveillance, Education, Healthcare & Medicaid for All, Legislative Gerrymandering & Vote Dilution, Immigration, Women’s Rights & Judicial Abuses–to the research & lawsuits on Toxic Herbicides Sprayed on Food, GMO’s, to Disease-Causing Materials placed in human teeth, and political issues that affect you most –The Legal Edition reports it.