Brazilian Animal Rights Review
Encyclopedia
The Brazilian Animal Rights Review was the first legal journal about Animal rights
of Latin America
. It is edited by Heron Santana and Luciano Rocha Santana. In Portuguese it is named Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal.
This periodical has an interdisciplinary character: Law, Philosophy and Veterinary Medicine and other studies.
About this periodical, Tom Regan
writes: "the recent actions of the founders of Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal portend a new future for animal rights in Brazil. Never before had a Brazilian dared to file a habeas corpus writ on behalf of a nonhuman. Imagine: a legal claim demanding release of a nonhuman animal illegally imprisoned! But this is precisely what the founders of RBDA did in September of this year, on behalf of a chimpanzees cruelly condemned to a file behind bars in a zoo in the state of Bahia(...)".
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
of Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. It is edited by Heron Santana and Luciano Rocha Santana. In Portuguese it is named Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal.
This periodical has an interdisciplinary character: Law, Philosophy and Veterinary Medicine and other studies.
About this periodical, Tom Regan
Tom Regan
Tom Regan is an American philosopher who specializes in animal rights theory. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001....
writes: "the recent actions of the founders of Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal portend a new future for animal rights in Brazil. Never before had a Brazilian dared to file a habeas corpus writ on behalf of a nonhuman. Imagine: a legal claim demanding release of a nonhuman animal illegally imprisoned! But this is precisely what the founders of RBDA did in September of this year, on behalf of a chimpanzees cruelly condemned to a file behind bars in a zoo in the state of Bahia(...)".