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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The 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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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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SUMAÚMA and NYU MOTH Project join forces to center the rights and perspectives of animal-people, plant-people, and fungi-people.
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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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