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(c) The Los Cedros Cloud Forest
Oct. 30th, 2024 10:23 amThere are rivers whose personhood has been recognized--in New Zealand, Colombia, Bangladesh, Canada, elsewhere too. And now, on the occasion of COP16, the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference currently underway in Cali, Colombia, there's a legal petition to have Ecuador's Los Cedros cloud forest recognized as a co-copyright holder for a song, created by writer Robert McFarlane, musician Cosmo Sheldrake, mycologist Giuliana Furci, legal scholar César Rodríguez-Garavito--and the forest.
In this Guardian article, McFarlane says,
The organization they're working through is the More Than Human Life (MOTH) project, which describes itself as "an interdisciplinary initiative advancing rights and well-being for humans, non-humans, and the web of life that sustains us all." They have a book, MORE THAN HUMAN RIGHTS
An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing, edited by Rodríguez-Garavito, which is free to download on their site (link here), as they want people to have access to the ideas and thinking.
In other news, an owl perched in a lilac right by our door this morning, looking for all the world like a person in a parka with a fur-lined hood. Her feet were invisible where she perched, her eyes were black and only black when she swiveled around to look at Wakanomori and me. We had come to see what the disturbance was--crows were making such a racket. Apparently they don't like Madam Owl.
In this Guardian article, McFarlane says,
It wasn’t written within the forest, it was written with the forest. This was absolutely and inextricably an act of co-authorship with the set of processes and relations and beings that that forest and its rivers comprise. We were briefly part of that ongoing being of the forest, and we couldn’t have written it without the forest. The forest wrote it with us.
The organization they're working through is the More Than Human Life (MOTH) project, which describes itself as "an interdisciplinary initiative advancing rights and well-being for humans, non-humans, and the web of life that sustains us all." They have a book, MORE THAN HUMAN RIGHTS
An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing, edited by Rodríguez-Garavito, which is free to download on their site (link here), as they want people to have access to the ideas and thinking.
In other news, an owl perched in a lilac right by our door this morning, looking for all the world like a person in a parka with a fur-lined hood. Her feet were invisible where she perched, her eyes were black and only black when she swiveled around to look at Wakanomori and me. We had come to see what the disturbance was--crows were making such a racket. Apparently they don't like Madam Owl.
