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Environment & Energy

applegrove

(123,612 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:55 PM Mar 2024

Whales given personhood in parts of the Pacific.

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"Whales hold an ancient sacredness for many Polynesian Indigenous groups. Now, in New Zealand, Tahiti and the Cook Islands, Indigenous leaders are recognizing them as legal persons. Conservationists hope it will lead to legal protections."

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Whales given personhood in parts of the Pacific. (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2024 OP

And one of these days, someone is going to decipher whale Vogon_Glory Mar 2024 #1

There have been some other similar actions taken in the world Danascot Mar 2024 #2

Vogon_Glory

(9,596 posts)

1. And one of these days, someone is going to decipher whale

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Fri Mar 29, 2024, 01:04 PM

Mar 2024

languages. And the day after that, the whales file lawsuits (And IMO, they have ample reason).

Danascot

(4,911 posts)

2. There have been some other similar actions taken in the world

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 04:30 PM

Mar 2024

Nature Rights: Countries Grant Legal Personhood Status to Nature
https://earth.org/nature-rights/

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