The Growing Push to Grant Legal Rights to Nature

From Ecuador's 2008 constitutional recognition of Pachamama to Bangladesh declaring all 700 of its rivers living entities with legal rights, the global movement to grant legal personhood to natural systems is accelerating — and scientists are now helping make it enforceable.

Why this matters → The map of jurisdictions granting rights to nature has doubled in five years — the question is no longer whether, but how fast it becomes the global legal norm.