Various organizations, communities and people committed to land care joined to defend the inherent rights of nature, organized under the Puerto Rican coalition for the inherent rights of naturewhose first together will be held for three days, in various locations in San Juan and Lajas, with the participation of national and international leaders.
The joint will be held from April 14 to 16 in Río Piedras, Santurce and La Parguera. It is an invitation to talk and feel the times of nature, in dialogue with territorial memories, community organizations, ancestral peoples of the archipelago and original Amazonian peoples that will come.
Through a press release, the coalition reported that experts in the rights of nature, such as activists, teachers, researchers, artists and political leaders of Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Panama, Aruba, and representatives of the original Amazon people Kichwa of Sarayaku, recognized by their defense of the jungle as the subject of rights as the subject of rights, as well as the indigenous people, the indigenous people, as well as the indigenous people the Caney de Orocovis.
The coalition called this series of meetings under the title “Together for the rights of nature”The group will celebrate a calendar of diverse and open actions to multiple audiences, which will encourage, among other things, the adoption of an ecocentric ethic.
Through the meetings, the coalition seeks to inspire concrete transformations into policies, laws and practices; nourish ecological memory and collective learning; and affirm that the rights of nature and human rights are inseparable.
What are the inherent rights of nature?
The inherent rights of nature are the recognition that ecosystems – art, oceans, animals, mountains and all life forms – have their own rights, not by human concession, but for being part of the living plot of the earth.
These rights invite you to leave the logic of property and control, to remember that all forms of life have a place and a purpose on the planet. They seek to balance what is good for people with what is good for all species and for the land itself, recognizing their right to exist, persist, regenerate and sustain their vital cycles without destructive interference.
The movement for the inherent rights of nature grows throughout the world. Countries like Ecuadorthat in 2008 they recognized them constitutionally (articles 71–74), have inspired similar processes in at least 39 nations, through laws, ordinances, declarations and legal actions that seek to protect ecosystems and key territories.
People interested in participating in the joint can register in This link.