Never before has an inanimate slice of nature tried to defend its rights in an American courtroom. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, wrote in a decision that granted the species relief.) (The palila “wings its way into federal court in its own right,” Diarmuid O’Scannlain, a judge on the U.S. There have also been several cases brought by entire species for instance, the palila, a critically endangered bird, successfully sued Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources for allowing feral goats to graze on its last remaining bit of habitat. According to legal papers submitted in February, the development would “adversely impact the lakes and marsh who are parties to this action,” causing injuries that are “concrete, distinct, and palpable.”Ī number of animals have preceded Mary Jane to court, including Happy, an elephant who lives at the Bronx Zoo, and Justice, an Appaloosa cross whose owner, in Oregon, neglected him. The lake has filed a case in Florida state court, together with Lake Hart, the Crosby Island Marsh, and two boggy streams.
In an effort to protect herself, Mary Jane is suing. A development planned for a site just north of Mary Jane would convert nineteen hundred acres of wetlands, pine flatlands, and cypress forest into homes, lawns, and office buildings. Orange County, which encompasses the lake, the city of Orlando, and much of Disney World, is one of the fastest-growing counties in Florida, and Florida is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation. Like most of the rest of central Florida, Mary Jane is under pressure from development. Toward the park side of the lake sits an islet, known as Bird Island, that’s favored by nesting egrets and wood storks. People who live along Mary Jane like to go boating and swimming and watch the wildlife. Where the face would be, there are scattered houses, with long docks that teeter over the water. Where the back of the woman’s head would be, there’s a park fitted out with a playground and picnic tables. Mary Jane has an irregular shape that, on a map, looks a bit like a woman’s head in profile.
Were Lake Okeechobee not encircled by dikes, the water that flows through Mary Jane would keep pouring south until it glided across the Everglades and out to sea. To the south, through more canals, Mary Jane feeds into a chain of lakes that run into Lake Kissimmee, which feeds into Lake Okeechobee. To the north, she is linked to a marsh, and to the west a canal ties her to Lake Hart. She makes her home in central Florida, in an area that was once given over to wetlands. Lake Mary Jane is shallow-twelve feet deep at most-but she’s well connected. However, Ted continues to sneak out of O'Hare's sight (with his grandmother's encouragement) and learns more of the trees' history.This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. After revealing that he has "security camera eyes" all over the city, O'Hare pressures Ted to stay in town.
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O'Hare explains to Ted that because trees produce oxygen free of charge, he considers it a threat to his business whenever he hears people talking about them. Ted agrees, but on his way home, he encounters the mayor of Thneedville, Aloysius O'Hare, who is also the proprietor of a company that sells bottled oxygen to Thneedville residents. Once the boy finds him, the Once-ler agrees to tell Ted about the trees on the condition that he listens to the story over multiple visits. When Ted leaves Thneedville in search of the Once-ler, he discovers that the outside world is a contaminated, empty, barren wasteland. His energetic Grammy Norma secretly tells Ted the legend of the Once-ler, who will tell anyone about trees if they brought him fifteen cents, a nail, and a shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail.
Ted has a crush on local environmentalist Audrey, who wants to see a "real tree" more than anything in the world, and decides to find one in order to impress her. Episode Description: Ted Wiggins is an idealistic boy, who lives in Thneedville, a walled city that, aside from the human citizens, is completely artificial everything is made of plastic, metal, or synthetics with no living plants.
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