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Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine
Season 7 · Episode 15

Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine

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March 11, 202229m 36s

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Show Notes

Ecuador made history as the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court—Ecuador’s equivalent to the United States Supreme Court—has not heard many cases in the decade since the law was added. The new Constitutional justices made a point of picking several cases to test rights of nature, and in 2021 handed down a major judgement about the future of one of the world's most biodiverse cloud forests.

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