Nemley Jr.’s Life Was Saved in a Daring Raid. Why Did He Die Just a Few Months Later?
Dear friends, I wrote to you a few months ago about Nemley Jr., a baby chimpanzee in Ivory Coast. After being confiscated from an international smuggling ring because of the BBC’s undercover operation, he was sent to a dilapidated, underfunded city zoo. The zoo still hasn’t fully recovered
By Paul Rincon (Science Editor - BBC News) The greater strength of chimpanzees, relative to humans, may have been explained by American scientists. A study suggests the difference is mostly due to a higher proportion in chimps of a muscle fibre type involved in powerful, rapid movements. The findings do
We need to talk about spending time with our families in zoos…
The force of events brings me back to this subject: why, in 2017, do we still take our families to spend a good time in zoos? I was struck by the news of the death of a keeper (one more) by one of the tigers she used to take care of
IBM Issues Public Statement Severing Ties With New York Blood Center Over Chimp Abandonment
By Donny Moss (Their Turn) In a statement posted on its website, IBM announced that it has severed all ties with the NY Blood Center on account of the organization’s decision to abandon 66 chimpanzees with no food or water on islands in Liberia. IBM joins NYBC’s other long
PASA – NIGERIA, AFRICA: Help rebuild Drill Ranch with donations
Drill Ranch, a pioneering PASA member wildlife center in Nigeria, cares for over 500 extremely endangered drill monkeys and 31 chimpanzees. At best of times, providing excellent care to so many animals in such a difficult country is daunting. Seven Enclosures Were Destroyed A tragedy has laid waste to Drill Ranch. Two
Last Saturday (April 29), chimpanzee Cecilia, released through a Habeas Corpus filed by the NGO AFADA (an organization of lawyers who defend animal rights in Argentina) was visited by Pablo Buompadre, author of the HC which Judge Dr. María Alejandra Mauricio fully accepted and allowed her release from a life
The 20-year-old chimpanzee Cecília arrived on April 5 at the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated to GAP Project, after two days of a journey that began in Mendoza, Argentina, where she had been living alone in a cement cage in the city's zoo and exposed to the public. Cecilia's
Chimpanzee Cecilia Finds Sanctuary: An Interview with GAP Brazil
By Lauren Choplin (NhRP blog) In November of 2016, an Argentine judge issued a ruling that has changed the life of a single chimpanzee—and could help do the same for other autonomous nonhuman animals. Thanks to litigation brought by an Argentine organization (AFADA) and modeled on the NhRP’s habeas
GAP Mexico: A Critique of Attacks on Captive Animals
By Francel De la Huerta, Alejandra Estrada and Paulina Bermúdez (GAP Mexico) On the first trimester of the present year, during february and march, a terrible phenomenon has occurred in zoos around the world. It´s difficult to ignore the fatal attacks that captive animals living in these places
Chimpanzee Cecilia back to nature in Brazil after misery of a jail-like zoo
efe-epa / By Carlos Meneses Sanchez Sao Paulo The chimpanzee Cecilia never knew what it was like to put her feet on the grass, she only knew the cement floor of the Argentine zoo where she was born 20 years ago. Today she breathes the fresh air of a Brazilian sanctuary surrounded
From distance we did not understand the situation quite completely. A Habeas Corpus filed by the AFADA Organization for the release of the chimpanzee Cecilia obtained a positive Judgment from a Court of Guarantees of the Mendoza Province that recognized her as a Subject of Law - a non-human person
Chimpanzee released by Habeas Corpus is transferred from Argentine zoo to Great Apes Sanctuary affiliated to the GAP Project in São Paulo, Brazil
Cecilia makes history as the first great ape to have the right to live in a sanctuary by means of a human legal instrument 17/04/04: The date will enter the world history of the struggle for freedom and the rights of non-human animals. The chimpanzee Cecília, who lived in the
This photo is the proof that, after months of struggling to secure Cecilia's release, her journey to live with her peers in a non-exploitive environment, unlike where she lived for over 19 years, finally began. Cecilia is going from Mendoza to Buenos Aires on this date and from there, early tomorrow,
Cecilia, first chimpanzee released by Habeas Corpus
Next week, the first chimpanzee in the world who has been released from captivity in a zoo through a human legal instrument, Habeas Corpus, will arrive at Guarulhos airport, in São Paulo, from Mendoza, Argentina. Cecília, who is the only survivor of a group of four chimpanzees who
By Karin Brulliard (The Washington Post) The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on behalf of two captive plaintiffs — both of them chimpanzees. Their self-appointed attorney, the crusading animal-rights lawyer Steven Wise, will once again be making the case that U.S. law should
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