This paper examines Ecuador’s Rights of Nature following the Los Cedros Constitutional Court ruling in 2021. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it explores how legal recognition of ecosystems as rights-bearing subjects intersects with Andean cosmology, conservation governance, extractive pressures, and local livelihoods in cloud forest communities, and how storytelling translates these changes into lived practice. It traces the historical and political context of the case while showing how Ecuador’s landmark environmental and legal achievements are increasingly threatened by authoritarian political reforms. The paper argues that preserving these gains is both a national and global imperative, requiring local and international solidarity to defend the rights of Nature, democratic institutions, and the communities that protect them. It calls for ecological justice grounded in interdependence among human and more-than-human life, emphasizing that the future of Rights of Nature depends not only on constitutional recognition but also on sustained collective action. By situating Los Cedros within broader struggles over democracy, conservation, and extractivism, the paper demonstrates how legal victories remain fragile without continued public engagement, institutional accountability, and transnational support, offering lessons for environmental justice movements confronting similar threats around the world today.