More-than-human (MOTH) rights are as much a legal proposition as they are a story about our relationship with the more-than-human world.
The story of MOTH rights is one of reconnection. Speaking about nature in the moral language of rights is an attempt to respectfully reconnect with the living and breathing Earth. This explains why creatives of all kinds—advocates, artists, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and storytellers—have advanced over 400 initiatives to recognize the rights of nature around the world.
Based on fieldwork and participation in legal actions that seek to protect the rights of rivers, animals, plants, fungi, forests, and other ecosystems to survive and thrive, my project seeks to push the boundaries of legal imagination. The resulting mural draws on conversations and collaborations with thinkers and doers from around the world that constitute the MOTH Project.
