NICOLE PALLOTTA: In February 2021, in a first for Canada, the Magpie River in Quebec was granted legal personhood via parallel resolutions adopted by a local municipality and a First Nation band. And in November 2020, voters in Orange County, Florida, approved a charter amendment granting legal rights to all waterways, including two rivers, in … Continue reading ANIMALS ARE ‘PERSONA NON GRATA’: Legal rights of ‘personhood’ recently given to rivers in Florida and Quebec