In January, six justices of the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that five elderly African elephants were not people.

The NonHuman Rights Project, an animal rights group, has alleged that five female elephants who have lived at the Colorado Springs facility for decades are being unlawfully confined “in ...

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 NonHuman Rights Project claims the animals are "suffering immensely" and should be able to challenge their own captivity. The zoo says the animal rights group isn't concerned about the ...

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 (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 ...

The animal rights group NonHuman Rights Project says the animals are languishing while “unlawfully confined” at the zoo, and wants them released to an unspecified elephant sanctuary.

The rally was held at Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park by the Nonhuman Rights Project on Oct. 6, where activists called for the elephants’ freedom. The group says that the upcoming hearing will ...

That leads to the topic of legal personhood, defined by the late Steven Wise, founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project, as the capacity to have any rights at all. In the United States, rights are ...

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 ...