nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211211-064222-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211210s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211211-064222-0 doi eng 342 23 Prieto, Gustavo Author aut The Los Cedros Forest has Rights The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms the Rights of Nature Prieto, Gustavo Verfassungsblog 2021-12-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court published its judgment in the case of the Los Cedros forest, a protected cloud forest of great biodiversity in the Andean mountains of Ecuador. This judgment revokes environmental permits previously granted to two mining concessions in the Bosque Protector Los Cedros reserve. The Court ruled that the mining permits in question had not only violated several constitutional rights of communities in the area but also – most remarkably – the rights of mother nature (Pacha Mama). It specifically granted these rights to the Los Cedros Reserve. But there is still some uncertainty regarding future applications of this unusual, non-anthropocentric legal standard set by the Court to protect the rights of mother nature. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Law Ecuadorian Constitutional Court RIghts of Nature Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-los-cedros-forest-has-rights/ raw object