Author: Austin Miles

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Commentary / Essays

April 7, 2022

by Austin Miles · Published April 7, 2022

To Conserve Nature, Recognize Its Rights

The Biden administration wants to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. Austin Miles asks: what might that conservation look like if it recognizes the rights of nature?

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Edge Effects is a digital magazine about environmental issues produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), a research center within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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