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This lagoon is effectively a person, new Spanish law says.
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- Author(s): Stokstad, Erik
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Science. 10/7/2022, Vol. 378 Issue 6615, p15-16. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
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The article reports on the approval of a bill granting the rights of personhood to Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon off eastern Spain, to protect the ecosystem. The move is in response to the massive algal blooms that sucked up the lagoon's oxygen and killed millions of fish and endangered fan mussels. The law gives the lagoon the right to exist, evolve naturally and be restored.
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