From Center for Great Apes (CGA) One year ago, we picked up two senior male chimpanzees from a small unaccredited zoo in Oklahoma that was closing down. Both boys were kept alone in different cages after each of their female companions died years earlier. And they had quite a history!
The male chimpanzee Guga was born in a commercial breeding place in Paraná, Brazil, in 1999. When he was still a baby, he was "adopted" by a human family and inspired these people to start work that, over 20 years, helped rescue more than a hundred chimpanzees victims of mistreatment and perpetuate
GAP Brazil: Black spoke! And human Justice heard him
Do not worry. It's not fake news. Chimpanzees, like all living humans, have a way of expressing their feelings and desires. Chimpanzees get very close to humans in communicating their emotions and state of mind. We have been spending time with them for the last 20 years and can attest this
GAP Brazil: Chimpanzee Black adapts very well to his new life in a sanctuary
Male 50-year-old chimpanzee Black chimpanzee was transferred from a zoo to the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, São Paulo, affiliated to GAP Project, 15 days ago, and his adaptation could not be better. In addition to being very healthy, he is relaxed and curious with other residents, an indicator that
GAP Brazil: Chimpanzee Black is transferred to the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba
After 15 years of struggle and a lot of negotiations, male chimpanzee Black, aged approximately 50 years old, was finally transferred from the zoo "Quinzinho de Barros", in Sorocaba, São Paulo state (SP), Brazil, to the Great Apes Sanctuary in the same city, a space affiliated to the GAP Project . Black's
Brazil, São Paulo: Doria’s dilemma – “Zoo, close or privatize?”
An announcement made by João Dória, state Governor for São Paulo, published a few days ago by Brazilian press indicates that a project is being set up to privatize the Botanical Garden, which has an annual deficit of four million Brazilian Reais, joining the São Paulo
Africa: Disease outbreak strikes sanctuary. You can help save the life of chimpanzees
From PASA - Pan African Sanctuary Alliance A deadly respiratory infection has swept through the chimpanzee social groups at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a PASA member in Kenya. Within a week, almost every one of the sanctuary’s 39 rescued and orphaned chimpanzees became sick. It’s the worst disease outbreak the
Indonesia: An endangered orangutan was shot 74 times. She’s blind but survived — her baby did not.
By Angela Fritz (The Washington Post) She was probably lounging in the treetops, where Sumatran orangutans spend almost all of their time, with her month-old baby in tow. She might have been breast-feeding. Little is known about how the pair found themselves in the tragic situation, but at some point,
PASA/Africa: Chimp families wiped out across West Africa. Help save them.
From PASA - Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Did you know that in the last 20 years, 80% of the western chimpanzee population has been wiped out? There is a vicious new crisis brewing in West Africa. You might remember Tita, a baby chimpanzee who was rescued from smugglers. Now she lives at
From Center for Great Apes Currently there are a rash of online articles about Bubbles, a resident chimpanzee at the Center for Great Apes. Many false statements have been made by online media sites and television programs, so it’s important to state the facts clearly. Most of the articles
By fragmenting forests and killing off individuals, humans are stopping the flow of ideas among our closest relatives. By Ed Yong (The Atlantic) Imagine that an alien species landed on Earth and, through their mere presence, those aliens caused our art to vanish, our music to homogenize, and our technological
A caretaker's neglect at the Bantu Resort zoo resulted in the escape of a chimpanzee from a cage, last Wednesday, towards a public road, an unusual case that attracted the curiosity of those who observed, with some fear of mixing, the eight-year-old ape, reported the "Jornal de Angola". "King," the
Chinese dam project in Guinea could kill up to 1,500 chimpanzees
From the Guardian Up to 1,500 chimpanzees could be killed by a new Chinese dam that will swamp a crucial sanctuary for the endangered primate in Guinea, experts have warned. The 294MW Koukoutamba dam will be built by Sinohydro, the world’s biggest hydroelectric power plant construction company, in the middle
Africa/DRC: Doguy didn’t need surgery and is doing well!
From J.A.C.K Sanctuary Last Thursday, February 21st, was a very important day for our young chimpanzee since the two veterinarians had arrived from Johannesburg to check and operate his left eye. In a few words, know that all went well! Thursday morning, Doguy was sedated and transfered
From PASA - Pan African Sanctuary Alliance No one knew if Likoni would survive when he arrived at Colobus Conservation, a PASA member sanctuary in Kenya. This helpless baby monkey had been viciously attacked by people with machetes. They left him alone to die. Thankfully someone witnessed this cruelty and
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