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6LLvveMx2koXfwntoday at 1:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Ecuador has Rights of Nature articles incorporated into their 2008 Constitution [1] effecting national decision making in investment and development.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_nature_in_Ecuador


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rob74today at 1:34 PM

Yes - the current conservative president organized a referendum which would have allowed him to change it, but it got rejected:

https://constitutionnet.org/news/voices/peoples-verdict-why-...

> in the months leading up to the referendum, the government and several pro-government public figures and political commentators openly criticized the 2008 Constitution, particularly its recognition of Nature as a subject of rights, emphasizing that no other constitution in the world contains such a provision.