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Granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature is a growing movement – can it stem biodiversity loss?

  • Written by Viktoria Kahui, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago
Granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature is a growing movement – can it stem biodiversity loss?Getty Images/Amy Toensing

Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing.

One emerging concept focuses on giving legal rights to nature.

Many Indigenous peoples have long emphasised the intrinsic value of nature. In 1972, the late University of...

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