Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution

Ecuadorians on Sunday rejected their president’s attempt to rewrite the constitution, a move that would likely have doomed the world’s only constitutional recognition of the rights of nature.  Nearly 62 percent of voters opposed President Daniel Noboa’s request to convene a constituent assembly to overhaul the constitution.  Since Ecuador recognized nature’s inherent rights to exist … Continue reading Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution