The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs is home to five African elephants named Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a national civil rights organization’s ninth attempt to declare animals legal persons in court and secure them the right to challenge their ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans. The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit ...

Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an animal rights group over the alleged treatment of elephants at the Colorado Springs facility.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...

For the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, the ruling represents a victory that reinforces its care practices for the elephants, which it argues are tailored to their specific needs as aging animals ...

An animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project had been trying to get five elephants freed from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. The group attempted to use a process used by ...

This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo via AP) (CN) — Five elderly African ...

An animal rights group had sought to have the African elephants, Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo, freed from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and moved to an elephant sanctuary, citing a legal process ...

The Colorado Supreme Court decided that elephants are not people, and don’t have the same rights. The state’s habeas corpus process, under which the claim was filed, only applies to people and not ...

Rulings in favor of the animals would have allowed lawyers for both Happy and the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — to pursue ...

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The project’s ...