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.

Happy is an Asian elephant who has lived since 1977 in captivity at the Bronx Zoo. In 2018, lawyers for a group known as the Nonhuman Rights Project went to court seeking her release to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an attorney, Steven Wise fought for personhood rights for his clients, who were captive chimps, elephants and whales. You may scoff at some of his arguments, writes Rich Barlow, but Wise ...

The director of the Nonhuman Rights Project plans to file a series of lawsuits in hopes that a court will finally recognize that a nonhuman plaintiff can be a legal "person" in the eyes of the law.

Since 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project has filed nine lawsuits, including this one, to free elephants and chimpanzees in New York, Colorado, California and Hawaii. It has yet to win a single case.

The NonHuman Rights project argues that legal personhood is not limited to humans. The lawsuit is similar to an unsuccessful one the group filed challenging the confinement of an elephant named ...

Since 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project has filed nine lawsuits, including this one, to free elephants and chimpanzees in New York, Colorado, California and Hawaii. It has yet to win a single case.

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed the lawsuit Wednesday in El Paso County District Court seeking legal rights for the elephants, according to an NhRP news release.

Her lawyers at the Nonhuman Rights Project argue that Happy possesses such complex cognitive, emotional and social abilities and deserves fundamental rights to “bodily liberty” and “bodily ...

The NonHuman Rights project argues that legal personhood is not limited to humans. The lawsuit is similar to an unsuccessful one the group filed challenging the confinement of an elephant named ...