Granting rights to apes, plants, even pond scum

This article, published by OSV Newsweekly, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith:

And, according to lawyer and bioethicist Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute … anyone in the world now has the right to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Ecuador’s Pachamama or any part of it, like rocks, piranhas or pond scum.

The rest of the article can be found here.