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Mari Margil

Mari Margil is Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights where she leads the international rights of nature work.

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Students of the Pambilino Forest-School look at plants as they walk to school in San Jose de Mashpi, Ecuador on October 31, 2019. - Children learn the importance of nature at a forest-school located in a biosphere reserve in Ecuador. The area is a unique territory in which the social and economic development of communities tends to an harmonious relationship with the natural environment. (Photo by Cristina Vega Rhor / AFP) (Photo by CRISTINA VEGA RHOR/AFP via Getty Images)

Recent Developments in Ecuador: Rights of Nature

The Constitutional Court selects cases to develop the "content" of the legal rights of nature.

Mari Margil · Jul 17, 2020

A doctor checks the body temperature of a man returning from Iran at a quarantine zone to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus in the Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan on February 25, 2020. (Photo: Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)

Advancing Change in a Time of Disruption: Forging a New Pathway for Nature

A disruption—such as a global pandemic—can provide a window of opportunity to change our habits and make positive change.

Mari Margil · Apr 1, 2020

The rights of nature represents necessary legal and cultural shifts in which we understand ourselves as part of nature, and not, as Colombia’s Constitutional Court explained, "a ruler of nature." (Photo: Jim Liestman/Flickr/cc)

Legal Rights of the Natural World: Beyond Personhood

By becoming a bearer of rights, nature is now being thrust into the murky realm of legal personhood.  

Mari Margil · Sep 26, 2019

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