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Self-Owning Nature Trusts

Early Global

Alternative property configuration enabling nature to buy ownerless land for ecosystem preservation. Part of Dark Matter Labs' Property & Beyond lab.

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Dark Matter Labs property and nature trust visualization
Self-Owning Nature Trusts explore how ecosystems could hold legal property rights
Framework for nature-based property rights
Reimagining property law to give nature autonomous legal standing and economic agency
Property and Beyond Lab research framework
Dark Matter Labs designs institutional infrastructure for nature's self-governance