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Spanish Parliament Extends Rights to Great Apes
MADRID, June 25 — Spain’s Parliament voiced its support today for the rights of great apes to life and freedom – apparently the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.
The Parliament’s environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Ape Project (GAP), devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans.
“This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defence of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity,” said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of GAP – Spain.
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