*Ecuador's Highest Court Enforces Constitutional "Rights of Nature" to Safeguard Los Cedros Protected Forest.*

This demonstrates that countries can establish and defend broad protections for natural ecosystems, including broad prohibitions of actions that tend to damage them, without endorsing an appearance of animism by saying that forests, rivers, etc. are "persons".

The push for animism can be seen in that article, however, where it claims tat monkeys, bears, frogs and birds won this legal battle.