Song of the Cedars was jointly created by four humans—the musician Cosmo Sheldrake, the writer Robert Macfarlane, the legal scholar César Rodríguez-Garavito, and the mycologist Giuliana Furci—and a cloud forest, namely the Los Cedros Forest in Ecuador. With the crucial assistance of the Ecuadorian organization Celid Plural, a legal petition was filed with the Ecuadorian copyright office, seeking to have the Los Cedros Forest recognized as an author of the Song of the Cedars a

The Festival is dedicated to exploring the rich and rapidly evolving field of inquiry and action pursuing efforts to bring the more-than-human world into the ambit of moral, legal, and social concern. The Festival has two components. The morning sessions comprise a closed-door, interactive academic conference which will examine philosophical, scientific, legal, and cultural perspectives on more-than-human rights and other ecocentric paradigms. In addition to serving as an int

The More-Than-Human Rights Mural Elena Landinez, César Rodríguez-Garavito PVC-free wallpaper, acetate Design Museum, London, 2025 This mural records the names of rivers that have been awarded legal rights by the countries through which they flow, as well as land surrounding waterways whose rights have been debated in court. These constitutional provisions, court rulings and declarations protect the integrity of rivers and, by extension, the many species (including humans) who