animal rights

  • Connecticut Lawsuit Is The First To Claim Elephants As Legal Persons

    Connecticut Lawsuit Is The First To Claim Elephants As Legal Persons

    Yesterday, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition on behalf of three elephants being kept at a Connecticut zoo. The suit demands that the court recognise these animals as “legal persons” and release them to sanctuary, but given that the same legal team failed to secure similar personhood rights for chimps in New York, it…