An Australian led initiative has published a document called the Declaration on the Rights of the Moon. The Declaration calls for the Moon to be regarded as "a sovereign natural entity in its own right” by giving it legal personhood, following real life examples like the Whanganui river in New Zealand, or the Atrato River basin in Colombia.
This follows the socio-legal ‘rights of nature’ movement, which argues that nature has a right to exist and flourish, rather than be treated as property to be exploited by mankind.