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Efforts to Rescue Lolita the Orca from Miami

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

Read the rest of the article in the Courthouse News Service. They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act. The federal complaint focuses on a whale named Lolita, who was captured more than 40 years ago, and has been held at the Miami Seaquarium.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.”

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