Ecuador, The First Nation To Give Legal Rights To Wild Animals
A great deal of beauty, richness & fulfillment can be found within nature, but a number of animals regularly face serious challenges.
Human activities have contributed to most of these issues
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One of the challenges is also the rapidly growing human population, which, over the past few decades, has crossed a billion.
Over consumption of natural resources endangers the habitats of numerous wild flora and fauna.
A large number of species have started declining; some have also faced extinction.
However, despite acknowledging that improving the welfare of wild animals is a challenge itself, our society remains responsible for most of the environmental degradation.
To protect wildlife species, a historic decision has been made in Ecuador, which is the first country to give legal rights to animals.
This decision came after the case of a wooly monkey named Estrellita surfaced.
She was taken illegally from the wild by a librarian named Ana Beatriz Burbano Proaño and her family when Estrella was just a month old.
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