Who Speaks for the Trees?
Driving Nature’s Rights into Law
by Mari Margil
Introduction by Thomas Linzey, executive director of the Community Environmental Defense Fund
SUNDAY PLENARY: October 18, 2009
9:00am – 1:00pm
The associate director of the Community Environmental Defense Fund (CELDF) describes the inspiring, groundbreaking work she and CELDF are doing to recognize Rights of Nature in law in both the U.S. and Ecuador, which recently became the world’s first nation to enshrine such rights in its constitution.
