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Name: Should a river have the same legal rights as a person? Here's the case for giving nature legal rights.
Uploaded: 2020-02-27T13:00:00Z
Duration: 4 min 23 s
Description: New Zealand's Whanganui River is, legally speaking, a person, with the same rights or you or me. Alice Matthews investigates the case for giving nature legal rights, and what those rights really mean.

Should a river have the same legal rights as a person? Here's the case for giving nature legal rights.

Published 25 February 2020, 5:26 am

New Zealand's Whanganui River is, legally speaking, a person, with the same rights or you or me. Alice Matthews investigates the case for giving nature legal rights, and what those rights really mean.