India Ministry of Environment & Forests Policy: prohibiting dolphinariums
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India released a policy which decides not to allow dolphinariums in the country in 2010.Read More →
Animal
This page identifies ecological jurisprudence initiatives in which the subject of the initiative is an individual animal, an animal species, or animals in general.
Argentina court case: rights of Sandra the orangutan
In 2015, the federal criminal cassation chamber of Buenos Aires declared Sandra the orangutan a “non-human person.”Read More →
Ecuador court case: killing of an endangered Andean condor
A court in Azuay, Ecuador convicted a hunter who killed an Andean Condor and charged him with violating rights of nature in 2013.Read More →
Oregon (USA) court case: State of Oregon v. Nix
A jury convicted the owner of a farm in Oregon found with dozens of emaciated or dead animals guilty of 20 counts of second-degree animal neglect in 2010.Read More →
New York (USA) court case: Nonhuman Rights Project v. Stanley
The court denied a petition by the NonHuman Rights Project aiming to give chimpanzees Hercules and Leo legal personhood and the right to bodily liberty in 2014.Read More →
Ecuador court case: illegal killing and transport of sharks (Galápagos)
In 2019, and Ecuador Court ordered 5.9 million in reparation for the killing and transport of 6,000 endangered sharks in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.Read More →
California (USA) court case: Tilikum v. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment
PETA filed and lost a lawsuit against Sea World claiming the holding of wild-captured orcas violated the 13th amendment of the US constitution in 2011.Read More →
Delhi (India) High Court Case: People For Animals vs. Md. Mohazzim
In 2014, the Delhi High Court ruled that the fundamental rights of captured birds to live with dignity and fly had been violated.Read More →