Editing Orangutan (section)

=== Personhood ===

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In June 2008, Spain would become the first country to recognise the rights of some non-human great apes, based on the guidelines of the [[Great Ape Project]], which are that chimpanzees, [[bonobo]]s, orangutans, and gorillas are not to be used for animal experiments.<ref>{{cite news |author=Glendinning, L. |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/26/humanrights.animalwelfare?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront |title=Spanish parliament approves 'human rights' for apes |newspaper=The Guardian |date=26 June 2008 |access-date=10 November 2008 |archive-date=26 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826115218/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/26/humanrights.animalwelfare?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Singer, P. |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jul/18/animalwelfare.animalbehaviour |title=Of great apes and men |newspaper=The Guardian |date=18 July 2008 |access-date=10 November 2008 |archive-date=13 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113090321/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/18/animalwelfare.animalbehaviour |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2014, a court in Argentina ruled that an orangutan named Sandra at the [[Buenos Aires Zoo]] must be moved to a sanctuary in Brazil to provide her "partial or controlled freedom". Sandra has since been relocated to [[Center for Great Apes|The Center for Great Apes]] in the [[United States]], as it is the only accredited orangutan [[sanctuary]] in the [[Americas]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://centerforgreatapes.org/orangutan/sandra/ | title=Sandra }}</ref> Animal rights groups like Great Ape Project Argentina argued the ruling should apply to all species in captivity, and legal specialists from the Argentina's Federal Chamber of [[Court of cassation|Criminal Cassatio]] considered the ruling applicable only to non-human hominids.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/23/world/americas/feat-orangutan-rights-ruling/ |title=Argentine orangutan granted unprecedented legal rights |author=Giménez, Emiliano |publisher=CNN |date=23 December 2014 |access-date=15 June 2020 |archive-date=3 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210403030759/https://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/23/world/americas/feat-orangutan-rights-ruling/ |url-status=live }}</ref>