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posted in 26 Feb 2020
World Wildlife Day – Sustaining Life on Earth. GAP talks about challenges and goals.
By Organiclesson.com World Wildlife Day (March 3rd) presents an important opportunity for us to raise environmental awareness and to consider our responsibilities in protecting the surrounding ecosystems, and the diverse plant and animal species that inhabit them. The theme for this year’s World Wildlife Day is “sustaining all
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posted in 26 Feb 2020
These chimpanzees, they are amazing people
A diary entry from our late founder, Dr. Carole Noon - From Save the Chimps Sanctuary  August 15, 2004 Dear All, As you read in the last newsletter we had some failed vasectomies and three babies born to the island group. Quite the comeuppance for Ms. Absolutely No Breeding to be sure.
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posted in 17 Feb 2020
Re-introduction of Natasha
Natasha is an adult female chimpanzee at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. She is also known as the most intelligent chimpanzee in the world https://wired.com/2012/08/chimps-have-geniuses-too/ In 2019, Natasha conceived following a hiatus from implants and gave birth to a healthy female baby on the 4th of September. As a
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posted in 06 Feb 2020
GAP Brazil: Tata and Milan, child pranks
Peter, Tata and their two sons Miguel and Milan form one of the chimpanzee families that live in the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba. Milan is the youngest, he is 4 years old, and does the pranks that any child his age, human or chimpanzee, does. Likewise, his mother, Tata, always
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posted in 05 Feb 2020
Glimpses of Fatherhood in Non-Pair-Bonding Chimps
Although they have no way of identifying their biological fathers, male chimpanzees form intimate bonds with them, a finding that questions the idea of fatherhood in some of humanity’s closest relatives, according to a study of wild chimpanzees in Uganda. In adulthood, male chimpanzees form strong relationships with one
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posted in 31 Jan 2020
Add Ham & Enos to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
From Save the Chimps Jan 31, 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of Ham’s flight into space – let’s honor him by getting Ham and Enos inducted into the Astronauts Hall of Fame in 2021. As unwilling participants, they paved the way for space exploration. They remain largely unrecognized. Sign this petition to
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posted in 29 Jan 2020
Help Lucie celebrate 20 years wild and free!
From PASA - Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Lucie was a tiny one-month-old chimpanzee clinging to her mom in the Congolese forests. Poachers invaded their quiet, secluded home and viciously murdered her mother. The smugglers pried Lucie away so they could butcher Lucie’s mom for bushmeat. They tied Lucie up
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posted in 24 Jan 2020
2019 Was a Record Year for Ocean Temperatures, Data Show
By Kendra Pierre-Louis (The New York Times) Last year was the warmest year on record for the world’s oceans, part of a long-term warming trend, according to a study released Monday. “If you look at the ocean heat content, 2019 is by far the hottest, 2018 is second, 2017 is third, 2015 is
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posted in 10 Jan 2020
GAP Brazil: Sanctuary offers to welcome surviving chimpanzees of German zoo fire
In the face of the unprecedented tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo, in Germany, on the first night of the year, in which five orangutans, two gorillas, one chimpanzee and 30 other primates and birds were burned alive, the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, in São Paulo, Brazil, together with GAP
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posted in 03 Jan 2020
GAP Spain condemns the fire that occurred in the Krefeld Zoo, Germany, where eight great apes have died
From GAP Spain 2020 begins with a new tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo, located west of Germany, caused by a Chinese flying lantern that fell on precarious facilities and with lacking of security. In Spain almost exactly a year ago at dawn on January 6, 2018, the three giraffes of the Cabárceno
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posted in 03 Jan 2020
Gorillas, orangutans and chimps die in German zoo fire
From The Guardian Dozens of animals including gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees were killed at a zoo in the western German city of Krefeld after a fire ripped through the monkey sanctuary in the early hours of the new year. The fire was likely to have been caused by Chinese sky
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posted in 27 Dec 2019
GAP Spain releases book “The Great Apes and their basic rights”
By Pedro Pozas (Director of Gap Spain and President of GAP Project International) At the end of 2018, the Great Ape Project Spain decided to write a book that would serve as the basis for the struggle for the basic rights of great apes as a celebration of our 20th anniversary
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posted in 13 Dec 2019
Happy Christmas and a lots of success in 2020
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Happy 2020. GAP Project - 20 years of struggle!
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posted in 05 Dec 2019
Help Cozy and other chimps and primates
From PASA - Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance We cannot imagine the terrible suffering Cozy endured for the first 10 years of his life. He was bred in a lab in the U.S. and subjected to horrific medical experiments. After the lab no longer wanted him, he was sold as a
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posted in 28 Nov 2019
‘Property’ or ‘person’? How animal rights could open new moral frontier
By Eoin O'Carroll (The Christian Science Monitor) In a forested reserve in central Florida, Sandra is settling in to her new home. Thanks to a 2015 ruling by a judge in Argentina, her new life represents another hole in the increasingly porous wall separating humans from nonhuman animals. The 33-year-old orangutan
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