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It’s Time to Recognize Elephants’ Personhood And Rights

The NhRP's Lauren Choplin interviews the law professor who's using habeas corpus to try to secure personhood and rights for a spectacled bear in Colombia.

Nonhuman Rights in Colombia: An Interview with Luis Domingo GĂłmez Maldonado

A school of fish encounters an orca in the open ocean. Photo: ©Mike Korostelev, mkorostelev.com

NhRP Intern Alex Kleinman: Rights Aren’t A Zero-Sum Game

Highlights from AR2017

Steven M. Wise performs "Meant to Be Free" at an Unlocking the Cage premiere party in NYC

“Meant to Be Free”: The Music Video

A depressed male chimpanzee lays his head on his arm. In "How Animals Grieve," Barbara J. King writes about how chimpanzees and other nonhuman animals' emotional and social lives.

The Power of Science-Based Storytelling: An Interview with Barbara J. King

Chimpanzee Cecilia stands in the grass at GAP Brazil's Sorocabo sanctuary.

Chimpanzee Cecilia Finds Sanctuary: An Interview with GAP Brazil

Why Rights? Tommy and Kiko Appellate Hearing

NhRP Condemns USDA Removal of Animal Welfare Reports

A Conversation with Thalia Field, Author of Experimental Animals

Laurence H. Tribe Supports Tommy and Kiko Habeas Petitions

Watercolor illustration of Tommy the chimpanzee.

Why Arbitrarily Denying Personhood To Any Being Is Dangerous and Wrong

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