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(Originally published by Mongabay, May 19, 2021) The Pope, a prince, and a judge walk into a bar… Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. What it represents instead is not a meeting in a bar, but a meeting of the minds around an idea that represents a profound…

The rights of the rivers of Bangladesh have been upheld by the country’s Supreme Court. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld the 2019 decision of the High Court (in Writ Petition № 13989) which declared that the Turag River and all other rivers in the country…

Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God. — Pope Francis, May 24, 2015, Laudato Si’[1] Those fighting for rights and freedom know that change never just happens.

When we think of Ecuador, the first thing that may come to mind are the Galapagos Islands — a place out of history, where Charles Darwin thought big thoughts amidst giant tortoises, iguanas, and finches. For others, Ecuador may conjure images of the Amazon or the Andes, mangroves or rainforest…