Justin Marceau argues for legal personhood for animals, focusing on rights and well-being, despite legal challenges and nuances in animal protection laws.

What if dogs were more than just “man’s best friend?”That’s an over-simplified version of the question being asked by animal ...

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the animal rights group Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) over five elephants kept at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. The NhRP pointed out that the ...

Rulings in favor of the animals would have allowed lawyers for both Happy and the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — to pursue ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay ... Lucky and Missy will remain at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. It followed a similar decision in 2022 by New York ...

I’d like to urge The Gazette to help the Nonhuman Rights Project fight for the freedom of the five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Elephants are highly intelligent animals that are adept ...

This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. AP Elephants may be “majestic,” but they are not ...

The group alleged that the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s five elephants—named Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo—were “unlawfully confined,” according to the ruling. They made their case ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-0 decision that African elephants Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky and Missy cannot leave Colorado Springs zoo Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, reported Reuters. The ...

An animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project had been trying to get five elephants freed from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. The group attempted to use a process used ...

A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.