

The Rights of Nature
A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
Author: David R. Boyd
Narrator: Corey M. Snow
Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/05/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental Law
Synopsis
Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species—from birds to lions—have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems—rivers, forests, mountains, and more—have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.
In The Rights of Nature, noted environmental lawyer David Boyd tells this remarkable story, which is, at its heart, one of humans as a species finally growing up. Listen to this book and your world view will be altered forever.