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The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have human rights. Here, an elephant walks within the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, February 8, 2021.
Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human. Tuesday's ...
In 2009, Bolivia became the first country to banish animal abuse and harm in circuses. [2] The United States of America is the only country in the world that has banned killing horses for consumption, [citation needed] and India have banned killing cows for consumption in some of its states. [citation needed]
African elephants receive at least some legal protection in every country where they are found. Successful conservation efforts in certain areas have led to high population densities while failures have led to declines as high as 70% or more of the course of ten years. As of 2008, local numbers were controlled by contraception or translocation.
The controversial practice of circus animal acts is legal in the US. [62] In 2015 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will phase out its use of elephants by 2018, [63] but ended up shutting down in 2017. In May 2022, the circus announced it would resume touring in 2023 without the use of animals.
No significant regulations on animal experimentation are passed in the US during this period. [7] 1889: George Angell founds the American Humane Education Society. [28] 1907: Every state in the union has anti-cruelty statutes. [7] 1910: Massachusetts passes a law to allow the Massachusetts SPCA to inspect slaughterhouses. [7] 1922
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