According to Mario Melo, the lawyer who represented Sarayaku, “Ecuador’s Constitution strongly supports the right to resistance, the collective rights of Indigenous peoples, and the rights of nature ( ...

Trees are seen at Laguna Grande in the protected Amazon rainforest of Cuyabeno, Ecuador, on March 30, 2024. Credit - Daniel Munoz/AFP—Getty Images Nearly two decades ago Ecuador became the first ...

The rights of nature: When a river becomes a living being For Dario Iza Pilaquinga, president of the Kitu Kara Indigenous people in Ecuador, nature is much more than just a legal idea. He sees it as a ...

The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to ...

DPhil Candidate in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford Ecuador’s presidential election will go to a second round after the current president, Daniel Noboa, and the ...