Mari Margil serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) (centerforenvironmentalrights.org) and as program manager for CDER’s International Center for the Rights of Nature.
In 2008, she served as a consultant to Ecuador’s national Constituent Assembly, helping to draft the world’s first rights of nature constitutional provisions. She is widely viewed as one of the leading global voices for the recognition of legally enforceable rights of ecosystems and nature. She is co-author of The Bottom Line or Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press, 2011).
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS & NATURE:
- Marching Toward Change—Faith and Governance in the Movement for the Rights of Nature
From Minding Nature’s Spring 2020, Volume 13, Number 2 issue.