nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/d296ddbf9d8fc194 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260202s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/d296ddbf9d8fc194 doi eng 342 23 Bernet Kempers, Eva Author aut Legislating Animal Rights Bernet Kempers, Eva Verfassungsblog 2026-02-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 RIghts of Nature Rechtssubjekt animal legal personhood animal rights legal person legal personhood (DE-588)4177269-6 gnd Rechtssubjekt Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/legislating-animal-rights/ raw object