Could legal 'personhood' help save Lough Neagh?
Rights of Nature could give Lough Neagh the same status as a person, entitled to the same protections.
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"We lost 85% of the marine prairies, and we saw the fishes on the shore looking for oxygen, and these images were horrible."
— Professor Eduardo Salazar-Ortuño , Academic
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Rights of Nature could give Lough Neagh the same status as a person, entitled to the same protections.
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