TIL Ecuador has constitutional protections for the rights of nature, and those protections are actively determining environmental legal cases.

A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area.

All of the permits issued were canceled upon the ruling.

It's awesome.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/plan-to-mine-in-ecuador-forest-violate-rights-of-nature-court-rules-aoe