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<i>A Japanese court threw out a lawsuit against a land reclamation project after taking a close look at the plaintiffs - which include mudskippers, fiddler crabs and Dunlin birds.
The suit, filed by residents on behalf of animals living in Isahaya Bay wetlands in southern Japan, claimed the project was destroying the critters' habitat. The Nagasaki District Court, however, ruled that nature itself has no rights under the law, and therefore cannot act as plaintiffs in a lawsuit, said court spokesman Michiharu Kawasaki.
"It is difficult to find the basis for nature's rights under the current law," Kyodo News quoted Judge Joji Ito as writing in his ruling...</i> <A HREF="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/03/15/961467-ap.html">Entire Story Here</A>
<i>A Japanese court threw out a lawsuit against a land reclamation project after taking a close look at the plaintiffs - which include mudskippers, fiddler crabs and Dunlin birds.
The suit, filed by residents on behalf of animals living in Isahaya Bay wetlands in southern Japan, claimed the project was destroying the critters' habitat. The Nagasaki District Court, however, ruled that nature itself has no rights under the law, and therefore cannot act as plaintiffs in a lawsuit, said court spokesman Michiharu Kawasaki.
"It is difficult to find the basis for nature's rights under the current law," Kyodo News quoted Judge Joji Ito as writing in his ruling...</i> <A HREF="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/03/15/961467-ap.html">Entire Story Here</A>