Global News: How a river in Quebec won the right to be a legal person

October 2nd, 2021

Executive Director Mari Margil speaks to the rise of the rights of nature movement during increasing support for the protection of Quebec's Magpie River in the latest article by Global News. In “How a river in Quebec won the right to be a legal person”, Krista Hessey explores the journey of the Magpie River becoming Canada’s first ecosystem to be granted personhood rights.

Indigenous and Quebec-based lawyers put together two resolutions in February 2021 that granted the river nine rights. Mari Margil believes this kind of legal movement and success is the result of a sense of urgency, to protect our natural world from further exploitation. More of this incredible news piece is found here.