http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/d296ddbf9d8fc194 https://verfassungsblog.de/legislating-animal-rights/ Legislating Animal Rights Bernet Kempers, Eva eng 2026-02-02 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 RIghts of Nature Rechtssubjekt animal legal personhood animal rights legal person legal personhood Rechtssubjekt Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In late 2025, Satipo, a provincial municipality in Peru, recognized the legal rights of “stingless bees” to exist, maintain healthy populations, live in a healthy environment, and conserve and regenerate their habitat. What stands out is that the Peruvian ordinance gives shape to animal rights in a way that differs markedly from the traditional framing of animal rights as a social justice movement aimed at liberating all animals from human exploitation: it recognizes only one type of animal as a subject of rights. This illustrates that scholarship on animal rights may not be keeping pace with the reality of how animal rights are developing in practice.