ABSTRACT
Ethical approaches issues underlie the ongoing discourse about the jurisprudential foundations of environmental law. An eccentric approach to environmental law is premised upon a need to respect and protect the values of nature for their own sake. It approaches to environmental law has been supported by arguments focused on: interdependence; spiritual harmony; extensions; and fictionist. A different environmental law is biocentrism, which effectively focuses on all living organisms. The need for ecological integrity reflects the concern for the non-human natural world the concept of inter-species justice. Ecological justice thus comprises intergenerational, intergenerational, and inter-species justice, supported by this duty to pass on the integrity of the planetary system. While humans can identify their own values, the values of non-human living organisms can be identified teleological: Our conceiving of each organism as a teleological centre of life is our recognition of the reality of its existence as a unique individual, pursuing its own good in its own way.
