Give endangered jaguars legal rights, Argentina campaigners ask court
by Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires from Environment | The Guardian on (#4KH2T)
With fewer than 20 left in the South American country's Gran Chaco forest - the big cats could be classed as a 'non-human person'
Argentina's supreme court has been asked to recognize the legal rights of the South American jaguar, of which fewer than 20 individuals remain alive in the country's Gran Chaco region.
The largest cat in the Americas once roamed the continent as far north as the Grand Canyon, but is now in decline across the entire western hemisphere.
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