Bill would give Doñana legal personhood and its own rights

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1. The bill would declare Doñana and its protection area a subject of rights, with full public and private legal capacity. Doñana and its area would include the National Park, its peripheral protection zone and the adjoining natural park.
2. It would recognize Doñana's rights to exist and evolve naturally, and to protection, conservation and restoration of its ecosystems, at the expense of governments and neighboring entities or people.
3. Any person or organization could go to court or to a public administration to defend Doñana, acting in the name of the ecosystem as the true interested party. Whoever wins the case would recover all litigation costs and would be exempt from court costs and bonds.
4. Public administrations at all levels would have duties such as preventing damage to the ecosystem, running awareness campaigns, doing periodic studies, immediately restricting dangerous activities, and banning or limiting the introduction of organisms that could alter the park's biological heritage.

Who it affects

• Public administrations at all levels, which would have new duties of protection, study and restriction of activities.: new obligations
• Any person or organization, which could sue in defense of Doñana.: new standing to bring legal action
• Governments and neighboring entities or people, responsible for the rights to protection, conservation and restoration.: responsible for upholding the rights
• The Government, which could approve the rules needed to apply and develop the law.: empowered to issue implementing rules

Words worth knowing

Personalidad jurídica (legal personhood)

Legal recognition that something can have rights and obligations, like a person or an organization.

Sujeto de derechos (subject of rights)

An entity that the law recognizes as able to hold its own rights.

Costas procesales (court costs)

Costs of the lawsuit, usually paid by the losing party.

Medidas cautelares (interim measures)

Temporary court orders to prevent harm while the case is ongoing; they may require a bond, that is, a security payment.

Disposición derogatoria (repealing provision)

Part of the law that cancels earlier rules that conflict with it.

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