If Nature Had Rights

IT WAS THE SUDDEN RUSH of the goats’ bodies against the side of the boma that woke him. Picking up a spear and stick, the Kenyan farmer slipped out into the warm night and crept toward the pen. All he could see was the spotted, sloping hindquarters of the animal trying to force itself between the poles to get at the goats—but it was enough. He drove his spear deep into the hyena. read more...

If Nature Had Rights: What would people need to give up?
by Cormac Cullinan
Drawings by Amy Falstrom
Published in the January/February 2008 issue of Orion magazine