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Happy the elephant wraps her trunk around the fencing of her enclosure in the Bronx Zoo's elephant exhibit.

Remarks by NhRP Attorneys Following Happy’s Historic Hearing

Happy stands before a gate in the Bronx Zoo elephant exhibit.

The Struggle to Gain an Elephant’s Right to Bodily Liberty

Happy stands before a gate in the Bronx Zoo elephant exhibit.

The Radical and Unacceptable Opposition to Nonhuman Rights

Meet the Attorney Who’ll Argue Happy’s Historic Elephant Rights Case

A photo of Vusmusi the elephant standing in a yard at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo

New Lawsuit Demands Right to Liberty, Sanctuary for Fresno Chaffee Zoo Elephants

Join Us For A Historic Nonhuman Rights Hearing and Rally

Amicus Support for the Fight to #FreeHappy

A photo taken from the Bronx Zoo monorail of Happy the elephant wrapping her trunk around the fencing of her enclosure

Join Us: Rally at the Bronx Zoo to #FreeHappy

Happy the elephant wraps her trunk around the fencing of her enclosure in the Bronx Zoo's elephant exhibit.

New York’s Highest Court Schedules Arguments in Elephant Rights Case

A photograph of Happy the elephant standing in the Bronx Zoo elephant exhibit (October 2021)

NhRP Reply to AZA Arguments in Legal Fight to #FreeHappy

Foto de mona chorongo (Lagothrix lagotricha) por Evgenia Kononova (río Taruma, Brazil), Wikimedia

Ecuador Recognizes Nonhuman Animals As Rightsholders

“The most important animal-rights case of the 21st century”

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