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Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals : Justice on the Ark, Hardback Book

Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals : Justice on the Ark Hardback

Edited by Jesse Donahue

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We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship.

Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public representation in government, access to housing, inheritance, and increased protection through the criminal justice system.

Nonhuman primates used as research subjects are also gaining limited rights of personhood in some countries.

This book examines how zoo animals could benefit from that revolution as well.

Reviewing zoo law and politics in the United States, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, scholars and zoo directors grapple with how the current law in those regions of the world impacts zoo animals and how it could be changed to serve them better.

They discuss the ways in which zoo animals could benefit from some re-worked companion animal law in the United States; the challenges of reintroductions and their legal barriers; how we can extend ideas of human research subject rights to zoo animal research; the stark problems of too few animal welfare laws in South East Asia; the need for a central governing body focused solely on exotic captive animals in New Zealand; and the need for stricter laws preventing the exotic pet problem that is increasingly affecting both zoos and sanctuaries.

The book starts a dialogue that moves the scholarship about zoos beyond a general discussion of ethics to a concrete dialogue and set of suggestions about how to extend legal rights to this group of animals.

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