http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/21/373273/bolivia-and-ecuador-equal-ri... Bolivia amended its constitution after pressure from its large indigenous population who places the environment and the earth deity, Pachamama, at the center of all life. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-... Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_8489... They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/legal-rights-nature-bolivia/ The first principle of Bolivia’s law — here translated into English<http://f.cl.ly/items/212y0r1R0W2k2F1M021G/Mother_Earth_Law.pdf> (.pdf) from the original Spanish<https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F44900268%2FLey-de-Derechos-de-la-Madre-Tierra-Estado-Plurinacional-de-Bolivia&ei=fqqsTZjSGs_dgQenpuTzBQ&usg=AFQjCNGdRDZ2--RoZgpBXoG9AxVzUGg77w&sig2=yO9oOfxJNEdAA7OQrUNaSw> — calls for human activities to “achieve dynamic balance with the cycles and processes inherent in Mother Earth,” with Mother Earth defined as “a unique, indivisible, self-regulating community of interrelated beings that sustains, contains and reproduces all beings.” A ministry of Mother Earth will be established, and an ombudsman appointed to hear disputes.