Spain Gives Personhood Status to Mar Menor Salt-Water Lagoon 
By JOSEPH WILSON NZ Source: Associated Press 9/21/2022
JOSEPH WILSON
Credit: Edu Botella/Europa Press via AP,
Spain has granted personhood status to what environmentalists call Europe’s largest salt-water lagoon, which has suffered massive die-offs of marine life as it degrades due to coastal development and local farming.
 

Spain granted personhood status Wednesday to what environmentalists call Europe's largest salt-water lagoon, which has suffered massive die-offs of marine life as it degrades due to coastal development and local farming. The new law came after a citizen-led push to provide better protection for the threatened ecosystem.

 
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