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Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales

insideclimatenews.org Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News

At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News

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For a moment there, I thought the UK was splitting up.

Tonga porpoised to be first country to recognise the rights of whales.
Terrible pun aside, go Tonga!

Makes more sense than corporations

Like, extra rights, you mean? Because lots of countries recognize animal rights.
- I think lots of countries enforce things like animal welfare but animals are property, they don’t have “rights” you’re just required to not abuse them, and often the definition of “not abusive” is still pretty abusive/negligent