A Voyage to Antarctica: Season 6 | Episode 3 - Antarctic Rights

What if Antarctica had rights and its own voice at the international table? Alok explores that question with 2025 Shackleton Medal-winner Cormac Cullinan, an environmental lawyer, author, and advocate for the rights of nature.

Cormac is a director of the Wild Law Institute and the specialist environmental law firm Cullinan & Associates. His groundbreaking book Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice (2002) pioneered Earth Jurisprudence and has played a significant role in informing and inspiring the growing Rights of Nature movement.

Cormac led the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (proclaimed on April 22, 2010, in Bolivia) and is a founder and member of the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. He was awarded the 2025 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Antarctic Alliance, launched on 1 December 2025.

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