Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals

Justice on the Ark

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals by Donald E. Moore III, Susan Margulis, Michael Morris, Mary Murray, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ron Kagan, Jesse Donahue, Lexington Books
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Author: Donald E. Moore III, Susan Margulis, Michael Morris, Mary Murray, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ron Kagan, Jesse Donahue ISBN: 9781498528955
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: April 12, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Donald E. Moore III, Susan Margulis, Michael Morris, Mary Murray, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ron Kagan, Jesse Donahue
ISBN: 9781498528955
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: April 12, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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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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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