A cloud forest in Ecuador could be credited as its perpetrator: the latest development in a growing global movement to grant legal rights to nature. The More-Than-Human-Life (Moth) Project, an initiative that works to advance non-human rights, has petitioned EcuadorThe copyright office recognizes Los Cedros Forest as co-creator of a song composed there. The NYU School of Law-based group’s decision is the world’s first legal attempt to “recognize an ecosystem’s moral authorship of a work of art,” it said. The guardian.

The song, which includes sounds of bats, monkeys and leaves recorded at Los Cedros, was “written with the forest”, said writer Robert Macfarlane, who organized the expedition for his upcoming book on the forest. nature rights movement. “We were briefly part of this permanent being of the forest, and we couldn’t have written it without the forest.”

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