While some countries struggle to uphold human rights, Ecuador has forged ahead and ruled wild animals possess distinct legal rights, including the right to exist.
" constitutional laws and elevated the legal status of nonhuman animals."In America, the rights of nature sounds like a fringe idea, but people don't realize how mainstream it is around the world," Kristen Stilt, an expert in animal law,The ruling arose from the sad case of a woolly monkey named Estrellita.
Estrellita was then seized by local authorities and suffered a sudden cardio-respiratory arrest within a month of being relocated to a zoo, where she passed away. Before hearing of her death, Burbano filed a case to get Estrellita back, citing the distress Estrellita was likely experiencing, having been so abruptly torn from everything familiar to her.
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