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Full California: City of Ojai Recognizes the ‘Personhood’ and Legal Rights of Elephants

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) finally got their way. A local city council has voted 4-1 to adopt a resolution to declare that elephants aren’t just animals and instead deserve “the legal rights of a…

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Happy Ending: New York’s High Court Rules an Elephant in the Bronx Zoo is Not Human

New York’s highest court — the New York Court of Appeals — rejected by a 5-2 decision the anti-hunting group Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) lawsuit claiming Happy the Elephant isn’t an animal and instead had “personhood”…