This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 74 minute video can be viewed HERE.

The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF’s International Center for the Rights of Nature, and Tulane Law School.

For Panel 3 at the Symposium – Defending and Enforcing the Rights of Nature – panelists described how ecosystems themselves are defending their rights in Ecuador and the U.S. Panel 3 featured moderator Thomas Linzey of CELDF, attorneys Francisco Bustamente and Hugo Echeverria of Ecuador, and attorneys Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin and Jason Flores-Williams of the U.S MORE…