The article talks about national parks in New Zealand that have been granted personhood, and also mentions some American legislation: > Although it doesn’t go

The article talks about national parks in New Zealand that have been granted personhood, and also mentions some American legislation: > Although it doesn’t go as far as giving trees and other plants ownership of themselves, the Clean Water Act of 1972 in the United States effectively grants them some rights. Under the ‘natural resource damage’ provisions of the law, trees and other resources have some basic rights. It’s the government, however, that’s entrusted with protecting those rights, although any money earned through litigation must be spent on the resource itself. Essentially, the money belongs to the resource.