All month long, WIVB News 4 will be celebrating Black History Month. We’re focusing on a special recognition from the NFTA, which is honoring legendary civil ...

An animal rights non-profit, Nonhuman Rights Project, brought both cases on the elephants’ behalf under a legal doctrine known as “habeas corpus” saying the animals should live in sanctuaries. Citing ...

The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as “persons” under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to the legislative branch to expand legal rights.

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-0 decision that African elephants Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky and Missy cannot ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there after the state's Supreme Court ruled they don't have the ...

RELATED STORIES: Bronx Zoo Elephant In Legal Battle To Be Treated As A Human The case, led by the Nonhuman Rights Project, sought to move the elephants, Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo to an ...

The animal rights group, the Nonhuman Rights Project, argued that the elephants had a right to physical liberty and were illegally confined in the zoo, according to the ruling, submitting ...

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to a ...

Five elephants at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo became the focus of a legal battle over their right to freedom. Animal rights activists argued the elephants, born in the wild, suffered mentally and ...

Animal rights non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project brought both cases on the elephants' behalf under a legal doctrine known as habeas corpus, saying the animals should live in sanctuaries.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) said the creatures should be moved instead to an elephant sanctuary. But Colorado's supreme court on Tuesday ruled that only people are covered by the state's ...