Ecuador's Constitutional Court Rules Wild Animals Are Subjects of ...

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador issued a landmark ruling that individual wild animals are subjects of legal rights under Ecuador's “rights of nature” ...

Ecuador's High Court Rules Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

"The court has stated that animals are subject of rights, protected by rights of nature." Other countries, like Canada and New Zealand as well ...

Constitutional Court of Ecuador Recognizes Animal Rights in ...

Environmental authorities had forcibly seized the monkey on the grounds that possessing a “wild animal” is prohibited by Ecuador law. Estrellita ...

Courts Grant Legal Rights to Animals in Ecuador

Pallotta, Nicole. “Ecuador's Constitutional Court Rules Wild Animals Are Subjects of Legal Rights under the Rights of Nature.” Animal Legal ...

Ecuador's High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

Although Estrellita had passed away before the court's decision, the Constitutional Court made clear that animals, as holders of legal rights, ...

Estrellita the Woolly Monkey and the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court

The Ecuadorian Environmental Code prohibits the possession of wild animals without a license, which is generally not issued to individuals, so ...

Ecuador Gives Rights to Wild Animals, with Help From our Professors

Ecuador's Constitutional Court recently issued a landmark decision extending the rights of nature to wild animals. In reaching its decision, ...

Ecuador court case on the rights of Estrellita the primate

In 2022, the Constitutional Court ruled rights of nature applies to individual animals, and a pet monkey's death constituted a rights of nature violation.

Historic Milestone in Ecuador: Constitutional Court Recognizes ...

Thus, if judges determine “that the deprivation or restriction of the freedom of a wild animal is unlawful, they must provide the most suitable ...

What Happens When a Court Declares Wild Animals Legal Persons?

A court in Ecuador recently ruled that wild animals are included in the country's Constitutional Rights of Nature.

In Ecuador, a Major Win for Wild Spaces and Wild Animals

On December 1, Ecuador's Constitutional Court issued a landmark decision on the rights of nature, with consequences both immediate and ...

Ecuador | Animal Legal & Historical Center

Even though nature has been granted rights by the constitution and the landmark case of Estrellita, where the Court holds that all animals are subjects of ...

Ecuador Becomes First Country to Recognise Animal Legal Rights

The Constitution Court of Ecuador recognises animal legal rights in ... wild animal” is prohibited by Ecuador law and was moved to a zoo.

Wild animals in Ecuador now have legal rights, thanks to a monkey ...

“The Court has stated that animals are subject of rights, protected by rights of nature.” It is thought to be the first time the law around the ...

one step forward, two steps back: the search for 'rights' in the ...

The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court ruled in the Estrellita case (2022) that animals, as elements of nature, are subjects of rights, and ordered what became ...

The Constitutional Court rules that wild animals are subject to ...

The Constitutional Court has recognized that wild animals are subject to protection rights as they are part of nature.

The Legal Rights of Animals Recognized by Ecuador Court - Vkind

For the first time, Ecuador's Constitutional Court has recognized the legal rights of nonhuman animals ... Ecuador approved a law in 2017 to protect wild animals ...

Ecuador gives legal rights to wild animals - Anadolu Ajansı

The decision follows a ruling by the Constitutional Court that recognized the legal rights of animals in Ecuador. ... subjects of law ...

Results | Animal Legal & Historical Center

The Constitutional Court decided to hear the case because it considered it had questions that needed to be answered. In a 7-2 court ruling, Ecuador's ...

Ecuadorian Animal Rights Decision is Mixed Bag - Lexology

The Court's groundbreaking ruling advances the constitutional protection of animals — ranging from the level of species to the individual animal ...