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Treating animals like people could stop them from going extinct.
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29 November 2021
Treating animals like people could stop them from going extinct.
At the moment, any wild land is considered the property of humans. But some campaigners
think animals should be given property rights – a legal claim to own the land they live on. In New Zealand, the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera Forest both have identity status, meaning the law treats them as people.
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