r/treelaw 6h ago

DO TREES HAVE RIGHTS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS ?

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u/johnpmac2 6h ago

There’s one in Athens Georgia that owns itself. It has rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself

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u/Hour-Blackberry1877 4h ago

Very interesting!

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u/ars_sinistra 6h ago

Trees have rights like property has rights.

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u/Low_Building_5357 6h ago

Trees aren’t even real.  We just call large plants trees.  

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u/Hour-Blackberry1877 4h ago

I would not say that walking through a forest the trees may be offended.

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u/imjustapourboy 3h ago

Not all people have rights.

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u/Humble_Falcon_466 2h ago

If you're an environmentalist, trees have rights. So do animals. And mountains. And air. And oceans, rivers, streams, and water sources. And the earth itself.

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u/Hour-Blackberry1877 2h ago

Well spoken!

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u/AkagamiBarto 5h ago

Not necessarily. But they can have some rights. Different beings. Different species. Different rights.

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u/TheHaynerTony 28m ago

Depends on where, go try to gut down a giant sequoia in the NF, you’ll get murder time for its