Anti-hunting lawfare groups pretending to be “conservation” groups looking to gain support and donations are at it again. With a playbook that ignores conservation realities and highlights cherry-picked science, they are attempting to rewrite the law from the bench, harvesting support for their efforts with crafty online petitions, hunting license raffle takeovers and slick media campaigns.
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But their efforts aren’t limited to the hunt. The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is yet again resorting to legal shenanigans to label pachyderms as people in Pennsylvania.
Habeas Elephanti
Last week, NhRP filed another habeas corpus petition to “free” five elephants from the Pittsburgh Zoo by declaring them legal “persons” with the right to bodily liberty. Sound radical? It is, especially for NhRP’s first case in Pennsylvania, a state with a deep tradition of practical wildlife management grounded in evidence-based science. As a reminder, NhRP’s argument has already been rejected by U.S. courts.
