Mexico’s Supreme Court orders zoo to improve conditions for Ely the elephant <a href="https://t.me/traffictemnik">как заработать на арбитраже трафика</a><br>Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a zoo to improve the health of an African elephant named Ely, the first time the country’s highest court has made such a move in favor of an animal.<br><br>The court ordered that there be “a constant improvement of her health and physical condition.”<br><br>The decision by a panel of four justices upheld a lower court’s order last year in Ely’s favor and experts believe it could set a precedent in Mexico recognizing that animals have rights.<br><br>Advocates have argued that Ely suffered from depression, especially since the death of Maggie, the other elephant sharing her habitat, in 2016, as well as illnesses she suffered in captivity.<br><br>Ely would bang against the walls of her enclosure and lost weight. Her defenders called her “the world’s saddest elephant.”<br><br>That was when Diana Valencia, founder and director of the animal rights group Opening Cages and Opening Minds, met Ely.<br><br>“It really moved me to see the state that she was in, it tore my soul and I made Ely a promise,” Valencia said, who has continued to visit the elephant regularly over the years.<br><br>She told Ely, “‘They aren’t going to do the same to you.’”<br>