The Los Cedros Forest has Rights The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms the Rights of Nature Prieto, Gustavo Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-12-10 eng
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 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Prieto, Gustavo funded by the government Constitutional Law Ecuadorian Constitutional Court RIghts of Nature 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-los-cedros-forest-has-rights/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20211211-064222-0 211210 10.17176/20211211-064222-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)