In 2021, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador handed down a landmark ruling on the rights of nature which protected the vital Los Cedros Forest. This report documents the successes and ongoing challenges around implementation of this important ruling.
Read moreThe MOTH Project is working with mycologists, the Sarayaku nation, filmmakers and storytellers, and others to pursue forms of scientific collaboration across Indigenous and Western cultures that advance protections and paradigms for the more-than-human world.
Read moreMOTH Director César Rodríguez-Garavito shares the ideas, concepts, and inspirations underpinning more-than-human rights in an op-ed in Emergence Magazine.
Read moreThe NYU MOTH Project was recently covered in an article, "Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream," by Jonathan Watts in The Guardian.
Read moreThe Sarayaku people of the Ecuadorian Amazon propose that human societies should be governed by the concept of 'Kawsak Sacha', or 'Living Forest', in order to change the destructive relationships that have led the planet to climate collapse.
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