Ecuador gives Legal Rights to Wild Animals

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Key updates-

• The decision was taken by the country’s highest court when it was hearing a case for Estrellita, a wooly monkey taken from the wild when she was one-month-old and kept as a pet. 
• She later died a month after it was moved to the zoo.
• The court noted that “wild species and their individuals have the right not to be hunted, fished, captured, collected, extracted, kept, retained, trafficked, traded or exchanged,” and that these creatures have individual value not related to their usefulness to humans.

About Ecuador-

• Ecuador, on South America’s west coast, is named after the Equator, the imaginary line around the Earth that splits the country in two. 
• Most of the country is in the Southern Hemisphere.
• It is bordered by Colombia and Peru and the Andes Mountains form the backbone of the country. 

• Cotopaxi in the Andes is the highest active volcano in the world.

• Quito, the capital, is known for its largely intact Spanish colonial center, with decorated 16th- and 17th-century palaces and religious sites, like the ornate Compañía de Jesús Church.
• Ecuador has many geographical zones, including Andean peaks, tropical rainforests and 1,000km (600 miles) off the coast – the volcanic Galapagos Islands, home to the animals and birds whose evolutionary adaptations shaped Charles Darwin’s theories. 

Further reading: https://journalsofindia.com/right-of-passage-for-animals/

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