Should Animals Have Human Rights? Hawai‘i Court To Decide The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court is set to hear a case about the living conditions of two elephants at the Honolulu Zoo The Independent UK · Jun 18
Elephants in US zoos? Without breeding, future is uncertain A community in the heart of California's farm belt has been drawn into a growing global debate over whether elephants should be in zoos The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023
Nicholas Goldberg: Are animals entitled to basic legal rights just like people? Happy is an Asian elephant who has lived since 1977 in captivity at the Bronx Zoo. Los Angeles Times · Jul 12, 2022
From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organisation) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The campaigners sought a writ of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf to request that… The Conversation · Jun 21, 2022
Bronx Zoo’s Happy the Elephant is ‘not a person,’ NY Court of Appeals rules NEW YORK — It’s a sad day to be Happy. Tribune News Service · Jun 14, 2022
Happy the elephant is not a person, a court rules The 5-2 decision by the court comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals. WEKU · Jun 14, 2022
No Habeas Corpus for Happy the Elephant From today's opinion from New York's high court in In the Matter of Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., written by Judge DiFiore: For centuries, the common law writ of habeas corpus has safeguarded the liberty rights of human beings by providing a means to secure release from illegal custody. The question… Reason · Jun 14, 2022
New York court rules Happy the elephant is not a person "The writ of habeas corpus ... has no applicability to Happy, a nonhuman animal." Axios · Jun 14, 2022
Top state court rejects effort to free Bronx Zoo elephant New York’s top court has rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2022
Happy is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a person? Through an attorney, the Bronx Zoo argues Happy is neither illegally imprisoned nor a person, but a well-cared-for elephant "respected as the magnificent creature she is." WEKU · May 19, 2022
Can an elephant also be considered a person? That’s what New York’s high court is being asked. A ruling could be months away in the case involving Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, that an animal rights group wants moved to a more spacious sanctuary. Chicago Sun-Times · May 18, 2022
Happy is an Asian elephant. But is she also a person? She has four limbs, expressive eyes and likes to stroll through greenery in New York City The Independent UK · May 18, 2022