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The South American republic of Ecuador will next week consider what many countries in the world would say is unthinkable. People will be asked to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador’s tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans. If they vote yes - and polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are against - then an already approved bill of rights for nature will be introduced, and new laws will change the legal status of nature from being simply property to being a right-bearing entity....

Eco-terrorists...on the FBI charts... Each week in "Tracking Terror," (Henry Schuster) reports on people and organizations driving international and domestic terrorism and efforts to combat those. The FBI believes Rudolph and McVeigh are part of the past. Instead, the agency sees a new threat: "The No. 1 domestic terrorism threat is the eco-terrorism, animal-rights movement," ... Here's how the animal rights and eco-terrorists made it to the top of the FBI charts. "There is nothing else going on in this country, over the last several years, that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions, arsons,...