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 ...

The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the animals. Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its five ...

The ruling, which was delivered last week, ends a 19-month legal battle. Animal rights non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project had filed the case on the elderly elephants’ behalf, arguing that they should ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...

An animal rights non-profit, Nonhuman Rights Project, brought both cases on the elephants’ behalf under a legal doctrine known as “habeas corpus” saying the animals should live in sanctuaries. Citing ...

The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the animals. Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project, a nonprofit seeking legal rights for intelligent animals, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in 2023 on behalf of five elephants — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), argued that elephants, born in the wilderness of Africa, showed signs of brain damage as the zoo was essentially a "prison" for such intelligent and social ...

Missy (front) and Lucky are shown at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorada Springs (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo) The Nonhuman Rights Project, the group that advocated for the animals argued that the ...