MOTH Director César Rodríguez-Garavito shares the ideas, concepts, and inspirations underpinning more-than-human rights in an op-ed in Emergence Magazine.
In Emergence Magazine, César Rodríguez-Garavito discusses the reconnection with the more-than-human world at the heart of more-than-human rights and the urgent need for a new legal and political paradigm that more aptly reflects humanity’s deep entanglement with the web of life that sustains us all.
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For 40 years, this indigenous people in Ecuador have fought against multiple actors to protect the living rainforest, setting an example that can be followed by other indigenous peoples and traditional communities.
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This is the story of the ipe tree, who provided shelter and love in the Amazon – then became a table in New York. Dead at 53, H.s. left behind countless children and thousands of friends who were woven into her warm and welcoming life.
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"In Underland: A Deep Time Journey", Robert Macfarlane voyages underground – from the catacombs of Paris to nuclear waste sites to caves with prehistoric paintings – to explore what these underland spaces have meant for humans and what they might say for our planet’s future.
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The 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.
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