Tag Archives: environment law

Person status protects river in new NZ law

Posted on September 13, 2016 by groundswellbasscoast

The New Zealand government is planning on giving the country’s third largest river the same rights as a citizen. It’s part of a legal revolution recognising the Maori connection to the environment and shifting assumptions about human control of the … Continue reading →

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Campaign to End Ecocide

Posted on April 18, 2013 by groundswellbasscoast

In March 2010 international barrister and award winning author Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations that Ecocide be the 5th Crime Against Peace. >read more>

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