Rights of Nature and the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative
The International Women’s Earth & Climate Summit brought together women leaders from around the world September 20 – 23, 2013 in New York. The 100 global women leaders include grassroots activists, economists, scientists, businesswomen, Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, faith leaders, culture...
Nature is not Mute by Eduardo Galeano
Excerpted from Inter Press Service, April 1, 2008 – http://www.ipsnews.net/2008/04/nature-is-not-mute/ At the time Ecuador was rewriting her Constitution to include Rights of Nature, Eduardo Galeano wrote the referenced article about why the time has come to recognize Rights of Nature in...
Ecuadorians are asking for support in the face of Yasuni decision
President Rafael Correa has just announced that Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. Colleagues in Ecuador are...
The case for Rights of Nature in face of the Mirador Open Pit Copper Mining Project
In March 2012, the government of Ecuador signed a contract with Ecuacorrientes (ECSA), a company of Chinese capital to extract copper, gold and silver from the Condor Highland in southeastern Ecuador. Today the humid tropical forest of the Condor Highland...
Ecuador’s green president pushes massive Chinese mine
QUITO, Ecuador — President Rafael Correa was once the toast of environmentalists around the world after his government adopted a groundbreaking new constitution that recognized “the rights of nature.” The 2008 constitution even used the words “Pacha Mama” — the...
Large scale mining in Ecuador – Domingo Ankuash, Shuar
Domingo Ankuash speaks on behalf of the Shaur and Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador about the threat of the proposed Mirador open pit mining project. This video has been created to bring to the eyes of the world the situation in...
Large scale mining in Ecuador
by Luis Corral The environmentalist Luis Corral talks about the environmental liabilities and heritage losses associated with the large scale mining. He describes with clarity the incompatibility of mining with the cultural and ecological survival of the Condor Mountain Range,...
Human Happiness and the Environment – Address by Uruguayan President Jose Mujica at Rio+20 Earth Summit
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEgcd7G9Bg’] To all of the authorities present here, from every latitude and organization, thank you very much. I want to thank the people of Brazil and Mrs. President, Dilma Rousseff. Thank you all for the good faith undoubtedly expressed...
Earth First? Bolivia’s Mother Earth Law Meets the Neo-Extractivist Economy
Emily Achtenberg Rebel Currents November 16, 2012 While the U. S. courts have granted civil rights to corporations, Bolivia has enacted a new law enshrining the legal rights of nature. The “Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living...
Kari Oca II Blessing of the Declaration
Blessing ceremony of the historical Kari Oca II Declaration, Kari-Oka Village, at Sacred Kari-Oka Púku, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 June 2012. Over five hundred Indigenous Peoples from Brazil and throughout the world gathered at Kari-Oca II, an encampment seated...
