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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 wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to ...
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 ...
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.
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] Cow is the national animal of Nepal and cow slaughter is a punishable offense as per the prevailing law.
Elephant executions occurred most frequently in the United States during the carnival-circus era of roughly 1850 to 1950; at least 36 elephants were executed between the 1880s and the 1920s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During this era, elephant behavior was often explained anthropomorphically, and thus granted a moral dimension wherein their actions were "good ...
Elephants need larger spaces to thrive and socialize. The group requested the court transfer the five Colorado elephants to one of the state’s two animal sanctuaries, where they would have more ...
Serengeti Human Elephant Conflict Mitigation Program: [17] Poaching and destroying wildlife natural habitats by setting bush fires, cutting down trees for timber, firewood and charcoal has triggered critical human-elephant conflict involving over 30,000 people living in 16 villages that border the Serengeti National Park. This project addresses ...