The Nonhuman Rights Project is petitioning the state of Connecticut on behalf of those three residents of Goshen, Connecticut's Commerford Zoo. For over 20 years, ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project is the only U. S. civil rights organization working to achieve legal rights for members of other species. Animals are not "things" to be abused.

The Nonhuman Rights Project is working at the state and county level to “demand recognition of the legal personhood and fundamental right to bodily liberty” of a number of species including ...

Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP’s pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from the ...

In re the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., on behalf of Kiko, Petitioner-Appellant v. Carmen Presti, etc., et al., Respondents. Justin Marceau, Samuel R. Wiseman and ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project lamented that the 48-year-old Happy would stay at the zoo but hailed the judge's comments and vowed to press on.

As NPR's Eyder Peralta explained in December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project asked a court to send Tommy, a chimpanzee living in a cage at a trailer dealer in Gloversville, N.Y., to a sanctuary ...

We all love our furry friends, but your dog is not a member of your family under the law — and shouldn’t be treated as such.

A Monday order in New York trial court (Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. Stanley) was denominated “Order to Show Cause & Writ of Habeas Corpus,” which seemed to suggest that the writ of habeas ...

And the Nonhuman Rights Project, seeking better living conditions for the elephant, says the answer is yes. The advocacy organization argues that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex ...