This paper analizes the new legal paradigm that recognizes rights of nature and its main issues and characteristics. Later, analysis focuses on the political trends that have supported this approach, describing the process that allowed the recognition rights of nature in several countries and the role of political mobilization to achieve this goal. Finally, the paper focuses in analysis of the national jurisprudence, judicial activism that enables the recognition of rivers and ecosystems as legal entities and the possibilities of the new jurisprudence.