Dear John,

As PAWS Director of Science, Research, and Advocacy Catherine Doyle said in Wednesday’s seminar, “Elephants should be given a chance to experience a more natural life and to be able to live with other elephants ... I can’t imagine being the only one of my kind, the only one of my species, and having no one else that could understand [me].”

With their right to liberty recognized, Happy, Minnie, and other self-aware, autonomous beings will no longer endure forced labor and imprisonment in barren environments that can’t meet their complex needs. Instead, they will be able to live freely and with dignity, including having the opportunity to form bonds with other members of their species. This urgently needed legal change—thousands of years overdue—is what the NhRP is working tirelessly to build.

If you’re currently in a position to do so, please consider making a one-time or recurring donation to the NhRP so that we can continue to do all it takes, inside and outside of the courtroom, to give autonomous nonhuman beings back their freedom.

Watch the video recording of the seminar here. You can also learn more about PAWS sanctuary here.

It’s only with the help of dedicated supporters like you that our fight for elephant rights can remain strong. On behalf of everyone at the NhRP, thank you!

Mickey Suzuki
Development Director, the NhRP