Article 5SKPH Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules

Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules

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Patrick Greenfield
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5SKPH)

Landmark ruling says mining permits issued in Los Cedros protected area breach Ecuador's constitution

Ecuador's highest court has ruled that plans to mine for copper and gold in a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature.

In a landmark ruling, the constitutional court of Ecuador decided that mining permits issued in Los Cedros, a protected area in the north-west of the country, would harm the biodiversity of the forest, which is home to spectacled bears, endangered frogs, dozens of rare orchid species and the brown-headed spider monkey, one of the world's rarest primates.

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