Animal-rights campaigners who helped to save Benjy, the gay Irish bull, from slaughter have welcomed a landmark court ruling, which declares orangutans non-human persons with legal rights, that could have implications for the Great Apes at Dublin Zoo. The Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) said it is delighted with last weeks ruling by an Argentinian court which granted the intelligent apes the status of non-human persons, rather than a thing or object. The ruling came after The Association of Officials and Lawyers for Animal Rights (AFADA) successfully argued that Sandra, a 29-year-old orangutan living in captivity at Buenos Aires Zoo, should be treated as a person, and not a thing due to the species high level of intelligence and the fact great apes share 97pc of human DNA. Source - The Irish Independent
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:54:19 +0000
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