U radu se razmatraju postignuća zemljocentričnog pristupa zaštiti okoliša, s posebnim osvrtom na Univeralnu deklaraciju o pravima Majke Zemlje iz 2010. godine. Analiziraju se teorijske osnove zemljocentričnog pristupa i novi pristup nazvan pravo divljine. Kao novi oblici zaštite prava Zemlje, navode se pomaci u načinu reguliranja prirođenih prava u Boliviji i Ekvadoru, te primjeri prakse postupanja središnjih i lokalnih vlasti. Naglašava se odgovornost za zaštitu okoliša s motrišta stavljanja prirode u središte vrednota zaštite sustava. Autori se zalažu da se dosadašnje pravo zaštite okoliša unaprijedi dosezima zemljocentričnog sustava, uz ustrojavanje novog institucionalnog okvira očuvanja prirode i čovjekova okoliša na globalnoj i nacionalnoj razini.The paper examines the achievements of Earth-centric approach to environmental protection, with particular reference to the 2010 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. Analysis is made of the theoretical basis of the Earth-centric approach and of the new approach distinguished as wild law. The advances in method of regulating inherent rights in Bolivia and Ecuador are quoted as new features of protecting the Earth rights, together with the practice of acting by central and local authorities. The liability for envi¬ronmental protection is accentuated from the viewpoint of placing nature in the centre of system protection values. The authors advocate that present environmental law be upgraded by achievements of the Earth-centric approach, and that the new institutional framework for preserving the nature and human environment be instituted at global and national level
