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Topic: Rights Of Nature

Three-months old baby bonobo Nakarla (L) plays with its mother Ukela on March 19, 2008 at the zoo in Frankfurt/M. (THOMAS LOHNES/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Do talking animals deserve human rights?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada, late on December 06, 2013. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Does a river have legal rights?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A >5mm member of section Longisetae of the genus Mycena, so named for the long, hyaline spines (setae) which emanate from the pileus and stipe. Some members of this group are bioluminescent. (Danny Newman)

Secrets of Ecuador’s weird rare shrooms

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A small town glows beneath a starry sky. (harpazo_hope / Getty Images)

Creatures of the night, unite

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Diablo dam on Skagit river (Getty Images/Crady von Pawlak)

Animals and plants go to court

Meryl Phair
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