Amazon City Grants Personhood Status to an Endangered River

Source: U.S. News and World ReportThe municipality of Guajara-Mirim has passed a groundbreaking law proposed by an Indigenous leader designating the Komi Memem River as a living entity with rights, ranging from maintaining its natural flow to having the surrounding forest protected. The river is now the first among hundreds in the Brazilian Amazon to be granted personhood status—a legal approach to protect nature that has made inroads in many parts of the world, from New...