Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine
Episode 15 of the Drilled podcast, hosted by Pushkin Industries, titled "Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine" was published on March 11, 2022 and runs 29 minutes.
March 11, 2022 ·29m · Drilled
Summary
Ecuador was the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) has not heard many cases in the decade or so since the law was added. The new...
Episode Description
Ecuador made history as the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court—Ecuador’s equivalent to the United States Supreme Court—has not heard many cases in the decade since the law was added. The new Constitutional justices made a point of picking several cases to test rights of nature, and in 2021 handed down a major judgement about the future of one of the world's most biodiverse cloud forests.
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