Endangered Toad Wins Legal Victory Against Highway Construction in Ecuador
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The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extinction. By Katie Surma An Ecuadorian court has blocked construction of a highway after ruling it poses an imminent and irreversible threat to the rights […]