Mari Margil, Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, is interviewed on a special BBC radio program on the Rights of Nature.

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

Conventional environmental laws have allowed Adani’s Carmichael coal mine go forward in Australia. It’s time we changed them.

For decades our laws have been a death sentence for the environment. Now, from the Amazon to Australia, the tide is turning

Climate change is accelerating faster than scientific models predicted. Mari Margil argues a transformation in law and culture is needed to curb the damaging effects on the world’s ecosystems.

A new movement is working to protect our environment through the recognition of its fundamental rights. It’s an idea whose time has come.