<div class="gmail_quote"><div><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/21/373273/bolivia-and-ecuador-equal-rights-to-nature-wild-law-climate-solution/" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/21/373273/bolivia-and-ecuador-equal-rights-to-nature-wild-law-climate-solution/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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. </span></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights</a></div>
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<font>Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth</font></h1><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:34px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);line-height:1.25;width:460px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation</p></div><div><div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_848966.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_848966.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)">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.</span></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/legal-rights-nature-bolivia/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/legal-rights-nature-bolivia/</a></div><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The first principle of Bolivia’s law — here </span><a href="http://f.cl.ly/items/212y0r1R0W2k2F1M021G/Mother_Earth_Law.pdf" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,124,165);text-decoration:none;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">translated into English</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (.pdf) from the </span><a href="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" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0,124,165);text-decoration:none;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">original Spanish</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> — 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.</span><div class="HOEnZb">
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