The elephant in question is Happy, who’s been kept at the Bronx Zoo for the last 45 years and in isolation for the last 15. The Nonhuman Rights Project, the animal rights nonprofit that brought ...

Advocates pushing for the release of the Bronx Zoo’s Asian elephant Happy into an animal sanctuary took a ... kind to pass a ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition in October 2018 “demanding recognition of Happy’s legal personhood and fundamental right to bodily liberty and her release to an elephant sanctuary.” ...

An elephant is not a legal person entitled ... It is also unclear from the legal submissions to the court if the Nonhuman Rights Project ever sought Happy’s consent to this move, or how she ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project had sought Happy’s release to an elephant sanctuary. The group has filed numerous lawsuits seeking the release of elephants and chimpanzees in New York and other ...

The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that "Happy" the elephant has no human writ of habeas corpus rights that would allow ...

For most of her life, Happy the elephant has lived at the Bronx Zoo. Get the full experience.Choose your plan But in 2018, the Nonhuman Rights Project, an animal rights organization known for ...

The advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project argued that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex elephant worthy of the right reserved in law for “a person.” Two judges, Rowan Wilson and ...

Happy the elephant will remain at the Bronx Zoo ... wrongly confined at the New York City zoo. The group, the Nonhuman Rights Project, argued that Happy is ‘an autonomous and cognitively ...

New York’s top court ruled last week that an elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy is “not a person” and therefore lacks the ...