The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), an advocacy organization that seeks legal rights for intelligent animals, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of five elephants in 2023 to end ...

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The project’s ...

As part of an ongoing legal case brought against the institution by the activist group Nonhuman Rights Project, in April Jaffe ordered Stony Brook University to provide justification for its custody ...

(The NonHuman Rights Project first tried this same tack with chimps.) Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, writing in The Atlantic, is all for it. Why, not only do elephants deserve rights ...