Should forests have rights?
Science Weekly
The Guardian
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:05.0 | In Norway, a woman's boyfriend forgets who she is overnight. |
| 0:12.0 | In Detroit, a man is is arrested but he was never at the crime scene. |
| 0:16.0 | In Spain disturbing pictures of young girls have appeared and no one knows who's behind them. |
| 0:22.0 | Something strange is happening. |
| 0:24.0 | A collision between people and artificial intelligence. |
| 0:28.0 | Discover more in the Guardian's new series Black Box. |
| 0:32.0 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes, Monday and Thursdays. As we went up the mountain, the ecosystem changed from tropical forest to cloud forest, |
| 0:49.6 | which is one of the most amazing experiences. |
| 0:55.3 | Just watching this pristine water, |
| 0:58.0 | listening to literally hundreds of species of birds |
| 1:02.0 | and their songs. |
| 1:05.0 | That's Cesar Rodriguez Garavito, |
| 1:08.0 | a legal professor from NYU |
| 1:11.0 | and a founding director of the more than human rights program. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm originally from Colombia so I'm very familiar with that type of ecosystem. |
| 1:20.0 | That was the first time that I ever saw a pristine forest of that type. |
| 1:25.0 | So I got to see for the first time what my own country and my own place of origin would have looked like. |
| 1:33.0 | He's describing Los Edros, a forest in Ecuador, which might not have been so pristine |
| 1:40.0 | had it not been given legal rights during a landmark case in 2021. |
| 1:46.0 | The courts sided with the forest to protect it from being mined, allowing it to continue |
| 1:51.4 | thriving. |
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