Ecuador becomes the 1st Country to Award Legal Rights to Wild Animals

April 12, 2022
Current Context: Ecuador Supreme Court awards legal rights to Wild Animals.
Ecuador becomes the 1st Country to Award Legal Rights to Wild Animals
  • Delivering the judgment, the Top Court said that wild animals have the right not to be hunted, kept captive, trafficked, marketed, or exchanged.
  • This move will pave the way for animal ethics across the globe.
  • The Estrellita Case paved the way for the protection of the legal rights of wild animals. Estrellita was a wooly monkey that was kept as a pet illegally after 18 years, it was released into the wild and suffered cardiac arrest.

Question:

Q.1 Which country has awarded legal rights to wild animals?
a. India
b. USA
c. Ecuador
d. Eritrea

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