Los derechos de la naturaleza y el ecocidio en la Legislación Ecuatoriana

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the classification of ecocide as an unfair criminal offense within the Ecuadorian Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code. For such purposes, a bibliographic qualitative research methodology has been used, which has been embodied in three specific objectives: to examine the legal nature of ecocide, in the rights of nature; create arguments that reveal the need to classify and punish ecocide; and propose a reform project to the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code regarding the rights of nature. For such purposes, necessary arguments have been found to substantiate the need to classify ecocide in the Ecuadorian criminal law in light of the rights of nature and the New Latin American Constitutionalism.