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Source: Amicus support for the fight to #FreeTheCMZElephants | Nonhuman Rights Project In May, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) submitted a brief to the Colorado Supreme Court, seeking to reverse a District Court decision that denied elephants Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky, and Missy a hearing on the legality of their captivity at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Love for animals should come with no strings attached Source: South China Morning Post The island of Bali, Indonesia is described as a “sun-soaked paradise” and is one of the most popular travel destinations for those seeking adventure and leisure. But is the island a paradise for its nonhuman inhabitants? History of Elephants in Bali
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In 1989 Kenya’s government planned and executed the world’s first ever ivory burn, desperate to do something about the poaching of its elephants due to the soaring cost, and therefore value to poachers, of ivory. This helped pass a ban on the international trade of ivory, which returned in the 2000s after a few African
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The rapper Rick Ross has reportedly applied for a “zoo license” and “ordered two elephants” to continue to add exotic animals to his estate in Fayetteville, Georgia. In Georgia, elephants are considered wild and inherently dangerous animals that require licensure and insurance to exhibit. They cannot be owned as pets. Even though elephants are endangered,
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Five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado now have legal representation fighting on their behalf at the highest court in Colorado. The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), a civil rights organization that uses legal tools to fight for animal rights, has filed an opening brief at the Colorado Supreme Court to ask the Court
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On the heels of the announcement that Botswana would send 20,000 elephants to Germany so they can see what it’s like to live alongside elephants, an NGO based in the African country released a report studying population trends based on aerial elephant surveys. The report by Elephants Without Borders suggested, among many other findings, that
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The southern African nation of Botswana has one of the highest elephant populations on the continent at roughly 130,000. Botswana banned trophy hunting in its borders in 2014, but revoked the ban on a limited basis in 2019 due to an increase in human-elephant conflict. Botswana now allows trophy hunting of elephants on a quota
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Establishing beehives around farms in elephant migration corridors can prevent human-elephant conflict.
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The Nonhuman Rights Project and Ojai City Council pass legislation to ban captivity of elephants.
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The Bhejane Trust in Zimbabwe is working to save elephant herds that are dying because of lack of access to water.
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