2. Mar Menor, first case of legal personhood in Europe - Eduardo Salazar Ortuño

Eduardo Salazar Ortuño is an environmental lawyer. Together with professor of law Teresa Vicente Giménez, he supported the salt water lagoon Mar Menor in Spain to attain legal personhood, as the first ecosystem in Europe. Eduardo has been practicing environmental law for 20 years. He is an expert on the Aarhus Convention, which empowers citizens and NGOs to defend the environment using access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Eduardo talks us through the process of getting the legal subjectivity of Mar Menor acknowledged and the importance of leadership from civil society. He explains how representation of the lagoon is developing through tutorship (representation), informed by the example of Río Atrato in Colombia. Eduardo also shares how rights of nature shifted his own perspective as a lawyer, and the importance of his personal connection to Mar Menor.  Host: Pella Thiel, producer: Fredrik Arestav, music: "Nightjar" by Cosmo Sheldrake, art: Scene from "Thanatopsis" by Asher Brown Durand.