The More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the advancement of rights and well-being for humans, nonhumans, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Program has two primary goals. First, using the tools of the law, MOTH offers answers to key questions raised by a host of disciplines concerning human relationships—institutional, political, legal, and cultural—with the natural world, including in the context of pressing ecological challenges.

The answers—developed through MOTH actions—aim to protect the living world and its many beings while achieving more-than-human rights in practice.

Second, MOTH nurtures and consolidates the field of practice and inquiry dedicated to more-than-human rights and related topics. In particular, MOTH builds bridges between disciplines and nurtures intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration and ideation.

The MOTH Program is an initiative of Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA), a program based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law.