Next Friday, January 27, the groups Movimiento Animalista Nacional, Victoria Animal, Protección Animal Ecuador, Proyecto Sacha, FATA and Fundación Rescate Animal Ecuador will commemorate the first year of the sentence in the case of the little monkey, with which the Constitutional Court of Ecuador recognized animals as subjects of rights in the country.
As a tribute to this day, the organizations will celebrate the popular declaration of National Animal Rights Day. The groups are also processing the official declaration, via the National Assembly, of this day.
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On Friday, the groups will begin the day with the “peaceful takeover of squares and parks” simultaneously in different cities of the country, a manifesto will be released in this regard, while with white candles they will expose their commitment to continue working for the rights of non-human animals.
The case of the woolly monkey Estrellita originated with the presentation of a habeas corpus in favor of the animal. The primate lived in Ambato for 18 years with Ana Beatriz Burbano, a woman who perceived herself as his mother.
As stated in the Court’s ruling, Burbano said that over the years Estrellita became a member of the family, that she had acquired their customs and that she communicated through gestures and sounds. The monkey had lived with the family since the first month after she was born.
The authorities learned of Estrellita’s living conditions through an anonymous complaint made in September 2018. The authorities raided the house on September 11, 2019. The monkey was taken to the San Martín EcoZoo in Baños, a canton near Ambato.
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On October 9, 2019, Estrellita died of cardiorespiratory arrest caused by respiratory failure, kidney and liver problems.
On December 6, 2019, Burbano filed a habeas corpus against the Ministry of the Environment; Jesús Vega, owner of the EcoZoológico and the State Attorney General’s Office.
Burbano wanted the Ministry of the Environment to grant him a custody license for the specimen, but it was not granted because the monkey Estrellita had already died when that constitutional action was filed.
On January 14, 2020, the Ministry of the Environment declared that Burbano committed a very serious infraction, according to the Organic Code of the Environment. For which he ordered her to pay $3,940 and ordered the confiscation of the animal, which had already been done and that it had already died. (YO)
Places where the groups will hold the events on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.:
- Quito, big square
- Guayaquil, Rocafuerte square
- Riobamba, General Barriga Park
- Ibarra, Municipality of Ibarra, Monsignor Leonidas Proaño auditorium
- Ambato, Cevallos Park
- Loja, Santo Domingo park
- Quicksilver, to confirm the point
- Tena, to confirm the point
- Santo Domingo, to confirm the point
Source: Eluniverso
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